Honeywell Selects Plateau to Automate Manufacturing Training Process

Facility Within the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex Will Use Plateau System's Configuration Management to Reduce Learning Cycles and Enhance Quality Control

ARLINGTON, VA March 4, 2002 Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (Honeywell), operator of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City Plant, has selected the Plateau 4 Learning Management System (LMS) to automate the scheduling and delivery of learning for its 4,000 engineers, employees and contractors. The Kansas City Plant is a defense systems manufacturing facility charged with strengthening national security.

At the Kansas City Plant, Honeywell develops and produces non-nuclear components for systems used to defend against weapons of mass destruction. Honeywell operates three separate factories under the strictest quality control and is continually honing its Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and manufacturing specifications to ensure the highest grade for all its production.

Plateau 4 LMS is a Web-based application that lets organizations automate the delivery of these new SOPs and specifications. Every time a procedure changes, Plateau 4 LMS searches by qualifications for every affected engineer and specialist, automatically updates their development plans and alerts them by e-mail that they need retraining on the procedure. Plateau 4 LMS lets organizations schedule and deliver this new learning either online or in the classroom, and tracks every person who completes training on the new course or procedure.

Plateau 4 LMS also natively determines - based on previous skill assessments and grades - how much new training each employee requires, and then tailors instruction and learning content to their individual needs. This adaptive learning strategy greatly reduces learning cycles, IT costs and failure rates for large, diversified organizations.

As an ISO 9001 certified plant that uses Six Sigma Plus as a measure of total quality, Honeywell is striving to achieve manufacturing processes that are 99.9997% error-free, said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau Systems. Plateau 4 LMS will help Honeywell to achieve and maintain this outstanding quality standard at a lower cost - and with less down-time for training its employees.

Honeywell is replacing its legacy training systems and importing all old learning data into Plateau 4 LMS, and will use Macromedia Dreamweaver™ to develop online courses that run seamlessly on Plateau's application. Additionally, Honeywell is integrating Plateau 4 LMS with its PeopleSoft Human Resources Information System. The integration allows Honeywell to automatically create learning development plans for all its engineers and contractors, and update those plans when employees change job positions or functions.

About Plateau: Plateau's enterprise-class software manages all of an organization's learning and knowledge on one scalable platform. Plateau 4 Learning Management System (LMS) is built on Web-based J2EE/EJB architecture, and is the engine behind the largest e-Learning initiatives in the corporate, non-profit and government markets. Plateau 4 LMS automates the management and delivery of online and classroom learning, organizational knowledge and competencies for clients including the American Red Cross, Motorola, Union Pacific and the U.S. Air Force. Plateau is listed as a leader in LMS evaluations from Gartner Inc. and META Group. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

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