GetSmart
1. What Is GetSmart?
GetSmart is a proven strategy for turning old-school SMMs – the ones we call NYMs (Not Yet Modern) - into Smart Manufacturing businesses. Your team is trained on the job. But don’t worry about downtime or disruption of production. Using simple tools and telepresence, not only is travel eliminated, but responsiveness to your needs and schedule is handled in a flexible, customized manner.
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Our approach focuses on real work, real machines, and real teams. We coach your employees remotely while they perform their actual duties. The result? They not only learn new methods, they use them confidently in production.
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The gap – we think of it as a chasm, an abyss – between the pre-digital way of manufacture and Smart Manufacturing is wide and deep. Speed of light information-flow has replaced slow Pen & Clipboard methods. Crossing into Smart Manufacturing isn’t about finding isolated new ideas or buying new tools—it’s about transforming an entire way of doing business. Perhaps the single best reason to delay digital adoption a NYM owner had was confusion about how all this transformation-talk would change his company, followed by the expense to do it. GetSmart’s guided, low-cost approach address both: decisively.
You need a bridge for safe crossing over the abyss.
2. Everyone Learns, Even Across Departments
Our trainees include factory-floor technicians, of course. But also engineers, sales teams, finance leaders, HR staff, and even legal administrators —because true transformation happens when everyone understands the new version of the company and collaborates across silos.
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This is what makes GetSmart different. Everyone learns the same language. Everyone sees where the business is going. Everyone belongs.
Make your implementation of Smart Manufacturing incorporate the genius of all your departments.
3. There are Good Reasons to Trust GetSmart as Your Upskilling Means.
Because we’ve lived it — shoulder-to-shoulder with your people. We know the people: Two decades of shoulder-to-shoulder integrator/inventor installations with the shop floor workforce. We know their abilities, frustrations, and aspirations.
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We tested new ideas: Five years of focused efforts – in the field – experimenting with fresh ideas that respect and motivate everyone in the company including the owner/managers and administrators.
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GetSmart is built on a Human-Centered Design. It’s not just about technology, but about how people comfortably and naturally come to realize that they can do a lot more than they had ever realized... it’s about how people from different departments can connect with each other to enable novel revenue-enhancing projects.
Deal with the folks who’ve experienced the real world of manufacturing and have thought long and hard about how to deliver better performance and greater satisfaction.
4. Selective Institutions Have Backed This Work
G-WPO’s GetSmart approach has been supported by some of the most selective organizations in workforce development and manufacturing innovation:
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CESMII, the Smart Manufacturing Institute of the Department of Energy
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The New York State Workforce Development Institute
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The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute
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Numerous MEPs, including TDO (NY), FuzeHub (NY), NJMEP, TMAC
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where our perspective shaped PhD-level research on upskilling
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Several end-user factories who participated and improved
Each project taught us how to make GetSmart more effective. Now it’s time to offer you the ideas all these organizations supported.
5. Training with Telepresence is Terrific. Everyone Learns.
With GetSmart, you don’t need to pause production or wait for consultants to fly in. We use secure videoconferencing to train your people directly. Whether they are techs on the factory floor, finance executives in their office, or even the owner (anywhere), everyone gets interactive PERSONALIZED training. And production continues uninterrupted as everyone gains confidence in adopting Smart Manufacturing approaches and in their ability to grow professionally.
This is precisely the way to make sure that the GetSmart bridge is secure: train each according to their need so that all can contribute to the common good.
6. Even at Initiation, GetSmart Delivers Value. Then It Keeps Getting Better.
Our approach minimizes risk. You start small, prove value, and grow from there. Workers quickly gain confidence and show early wins. Owners can see for themselves that everyone is learning and adopting new ideas. Data fluency, information – knowledge! – become the new normal, as does cross-functional collaboration. And each success builds momentum for the next.
The cloud with a silver lining is transformed into a Cloud of flowing data, enabling new ideas, better understanding of vendor offerings and a journey that assures continuous improvement.
7. GetSmart Is Built to Be Scaled in More Ways Than One.
We can scale by training the trainers — enabling a nationwide workforce of GetSmart guides who can lead future NYM transformations. Turn NYMS into Smart Manufacturers nationwide.
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We can scale by expanding the tool kit — integrating more technologies to stay at the leading edge of Smart Manufacturing. Ensure that GetSmart grows as these new Smart Manufacturers require more advanced knowledge.
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We can scale by increasing prosperity – adding to EBITDA as well as the multiple; adding to the overall valuation of the business and the ability for the owner to exit profitably; adding by the option meaningfully address employee ownership participation.
8. We’re Inviting You to Transform Your Factory with Our Customized Approach.
Yes, customized - for YOUR factory; for YOUR employees; for YOUR vision of a more prosperous, more secure, more competitive future. No two factories are the same, so why should training be the same? Share your world — and your vision for its future — with us. We know how to listen.