As the skills shortage grows more acute each year and margin pressures mount it’s more critical than ever before to make the right hiring decision. Our validated Selection-Evaluation program, using portable assessment machines and a Non-Written, Non-Verbal, Task-Oriented methodology, identifies the most skilled, most capable, & most trainable candidates and incumbents.

Mechanical Skills Assessments
Electrical Skills Assessments
PLC Assessment Training
CNC assessment training

Non-Verbal, Non-written, Task-Oriented

Identifying and quantifying** skills prior to hire is the single most effective means to insure a quality, highly productive hiring decision. This solution provides a Return-On-Investment over 100% the first year of implementation. These industrial skills assessments have been administered over 900,000 times generating savings in excess of $10 billion for our manufacturing clients.

The efficacy of the assessment program has been confirmed by over thirty validation studies conducted by Industrial/Organizational PhD's and by forty years of success driving productivity in the field.

Make The Right Hiring Decision

We understand the hiring process in industry. Our Manufacturing Skills Selection-Evaluation program is designed to eliminate the uncertainty. Will this candidate be a productive addition to my team? How can you know for sure? SMT's assessment programs answer these questions, solve this problem, and dramatically enhance productivity.

Each industrial skills assessment tool replicates conditions found in industry and is used to identify and measure manufacturing specific skills. These Manufacturing Skills Selection-Evaluation Assessment machines and our Non-Verbal, Non-Written, Task-Oriented methodology are Powerful Productivity Tools. Our assessment program and training programs dramatically impact Lean, Six Sigma, and TPM initiatives by increasing the skill level of the workforce resulting in significant productivity enhancements and a stronger bottom-line.

The assessment program is neutral regarding language, gender, and origin; a best practice solution for hiring and promoting in manufacturing.

  • Identify Problem Solving Skills
  • Lower the Risk & Cost of Hiring
  • Confirm Skills Represented on CV
  • Increased Productivity
  • Measure Competencies & Instinct
  • Decrease Work Related Injuries
  • Minimize Downtime
  • Identify Troubleshooting Ability
  • Identify Trainability
  • Impact Lean, Six Sigma, & TPM Programs
  • Separate Candidates by Skill Level
  • Match the Right Person with the Right Job
  • Avoid the Bad Hire
  • Reduce Employee Turnover

If you’re hiring without identifying skills in advance you may be accepting risks that can be easily avoided.

Pricing

The portable industrial skills assessment machines are available for purchase or lease. SMT can conduct the assessments at our location, in your facility, or we can train your incumbents the assessment methodology. Our most popular deliverable is the option where we train an incumbent(s) the manufacturing skills assessment methodology. Please contact us for a pricing proposal specific to your need and objectives.

Methodology & Scoring

The Mechanical, Electrical, & PLC assessment machines incorporate similar assessment methodologies. After the assessment subject has an opportunity to study the machine operation, faults are introduced that will interrupt a sequence in a specific way. The candidate is tasked with identifying the fault and returning the machine to fully operational status. The time and method used generates a percentile score. The CNC assessment scoring is a function of the time taken and methods used as the candidate follows a CNC job sheet. See respective manufacturing skills assessment programs for a list of skills identified and measured.

Many organizations assess incumbents to identify strengths & weaknesses, create benchmarks, and design training programs specific to identified needs. Quantifying training needs in this fashion leads to highly effective training in a relatively short period of time.

Each manufacturing skills assessment program generates a score on a percentile basis from zero to 99%. SMT provides suggested benchmark scores based on the position your manufacturing organization is assessing for. Some of our clients over time have raised the acceptable score required for hire. These organizations have several years of first-hand experience benchmarking and correlating assessment scores with productivity on the production floor and they know the exact score that will deliver a top-performer for their facility.

**all four assessment programs rank skills on a percentile basis, from 0 to 99%