(Donnelly Custom Manufacturing: Alexandria, MI) -- Despite the more than 60 years since training within industry (TWI) was created in the United States to ramp up production of war materiel during World War II, implanting TWI skills in an organization still takes great planning and effort. Patrick Graupp and Robert J. Wrona, authors of the upcoming  Implementing TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills Based Culture (CRC Press, 2010), use their 10 years of experience in implanting TWI in companies across the United States and around the world to describe critical elements and point out key stumbling blocks to a successful TWI implementation.

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