Case Study: Nidec achieves 60% faster work-instruction creation and captures tribal knowledge with Visual Knowledge Share Ltd (VKS)

Nidec - Customer Case Study

Nidec, a high‑variety, low‑volume manufacturer facing a wave of retirements and a widening skills gap, needed a way to capture tribal knowledge and speed up operator training that paper work instructions couldn’t provide. After consulting with IMEG, they selected Visual Knowledge Share Ltd’s VKS digital work instruction software to replace paper guides and standardize how complex stamping-press processes are documented and taught.

Visual Knowledge Share Ltd implemented VKS to digitize step‑by‑step, visual work instructions with cloud access, mass updates, translations (28 languages) and reporting/approval workflows. The result: creation time for work instructions dropped from 5+ hours to about 2 hours (≈60% reduction), easier global knowledge transfer and training, improved process control and accountability, actionable time-study data, and the capacity to add new product lines.

Nidec

Jill Howe

Manufacturing Engineering Manager