Case Study: BorgWarner achieves paperless, frontline-first safety training with Axonify (97% participation, 11% knowledge growth)

BorgWarner transforms safety training and boosts compliance with frontline-first training and communications

BorgWarner’s Ithaca, New York campus—home to about 1,200 employees—faced an outdated, paper-based training process that pulled workers off the production floor for hour‑long sessions, required over 27 quarterly classes (nearly 11,000 hours annually), and left no way to reinforce learning or measure competency. The lack of centralized, ongoing training meant knowledge gaps went unidentified and records sat unused in filing cabinets.

BorgWarner adopted Axonify’s frontline-first microlearning platform, giving employees personalized, bite‑sized, gamified training they can complete on their own schedule (with a 3x/week expectation), plus tools like Discover, Self‑Directed learning, LeaderZone and Rewards. The shift trained all 1,200 employees with 97% participation, sustained 3x‑weekly engagement and an 11% knowledge increase, while boosting employee autonomy, auditor confidence and ongoing content contribution.

BorgWarner

Jennifer Payne

Operations Training Specialist