{"id":52367,"date":"2024-05-27T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/from-spreadsheets-to-seamless-learning-plesseys-journey-with-cortexa-and-totara-lms\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T20:53:40","slug":"from-spreadsheets-to-seamless-learning-plesseys-journey-with-cortexa-and-totara-lms","status":"publish","type":"customer-story","link":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/customer-stories\/from-spreadsheets-to-seamless-learning-plesseys-journey-with-cortexa-and-totara-lms\/","title":{"rendered":"From Spreadsheets to Seamless Learning: Plessey\u2019s Journey with Cortexa and Totara LMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Plessey is working with world leaders in consumer technology, who are paving the way with innovative next-generation Augmented Reality and wearable applications, based on advanced microLED display solutions. Drawing on over a decade of semiconductor and optoelectronics expertise, Plessey has developed an award-winning, unique and proprietary GaN-on-Silicon platform and monolithic process at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Devon, UK.<\/p>\n

Plessey first engaged with Totara Partner Cortexa during the 2023 Learning Tech exhibition in London. After initial discussions the project brief was explored in detail during a series of online meetings culminating in a Totara demo site being established to provide the Plessey management team a proof of concept. Following further discussions and an in depth planning phase the resulting Totara site was launched to a fanfare and cupcakes on 14th<\/sup> February 2024.<\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/b><\/h3>\n

The Plessey production facility manufacture using expensive and delicate equipment within a hi-tech clean room environment. All operating personnel must be fully trained to undertake each process to ensure perfect results and to avoid the contamination of high cost raw materials, any errors in this process or the availability of correctly trained staff can result in a production standstill. Previous training and quality control methods was facilitated via a combination of spreadsheets and database sources which provided a robust system but was not easily accessible and lacked a reporting system. Also, there was no wider training facility in place to fulfil their aspirations to extend staff training across the entire business.<\/p>\n

Key Objectives <\/b><\/h3>\n

To replace the existing system with a single digital solution that eventually could hold the operator business critical training records whilst simultaneously providing a wider range of training courses to their entire staff.<\/p>\n

Whilst the long-term goal is to dispense with their original spreadsheet approach to competency tracking their initial launch would need to retain and integrate their current process whilst offering a much wider selection of bite sized courses across the entire business.<\/p>\n

Once this was fully operational then the Totara solution could facilitate a full switch via an alternative approach to critical training recording or at the very least provide a greater integration method to synchronise data in real time.<\/p>\n