Skills management software for manufacturers

Boost productivity with easy skills management

Say goodbye to inefficient spreadsheets. With AG5, you’ll use an intuitive dashboard for easy oversight over your employees’ skills, enabling you to identify and close skills gaps – and keep your organization’s production processes on track.

Identify

Skills gaps, with a clear overview and intuitive central dashboard

Prioritize

The skills you need for efficient production – and find the employees who possess them

Develop

A training plan that ensures all employees stay ahead of the curve in the always-evolving manufacturing industry

Provide

Employees with convenient access to the training and development they need

Measure

Your training plan’s effectiveness – no spreadsheets necessary

React

Quickly and decisively to fill missing skills and close the skills gap, and ensure you stay compliant with important certifications

Keep production lines running

Without the right skills for the job, your teams will run into bottlenecks, staffing shortages, or other delays. Tracking skills with Excel spreadsheets, however, is time-consuming and inefficient. With AG5, you’ll skip that step, using an intuitive dashboard to track and manage skills and qualifications, and ensure production processes continue to run smoothly.

With AG5:

Clearly visualize the skills your teams possess – and those it needs
Quickly develop a plan to fill any skills gaps with training – no spreadsheets necessary
Grant different levels of access to employees based on their qualifications

Real results achieved by our customers

I can now delegate greater responsibility to our supervisors because they have the insights and overview they need to act independently.

Wouter De Smet

Training Coordinator

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Efficient, flexible, productive

Successful employee onboarding and transition relies on planning and upskilling. With a full overview of present and needed skills, you can more effectively design teams that are efficient, adaptable, and productive.

With AG5:

Identify top performers at the individual and team level
Onboard new and transitioning employees faster and more efficiently
Spread skills effectively to ensure balance if key employees leave your team

Stay current – and fully compliant

Certifications prove your organization’s commitment to quality and continuous improvement. They are also key in ensuring workplace safety and legal compliance. AG5’s automated skills management software takes complicated, time-consuming administrative tasks off your hands, leaving you to focus on what matters: safety.

With AG5:

Monitor continually and automatically to ensure employee certifications are up to date
Automatically notify employees when they need to renew certifications
Maintain a transparent, audit-proof overview of your employees’ certification statuses

As easy as API

Integrate AG5’s skills management software into your company’s existing IT infrastructure by connecting to our API.

Integration is available for all common HRM systems, BI systems, e-learning systems, planning systems, digital work instructions systems, and more.

AG5 is also a fully certified add-on for SAP.

See AG5 skills management software in action

Without the right tools, it can be difficult to maintain a clear overview of your staff’s qualifications and certification requirements – especially when you’re overseeing 20,000 employees, spread out over 2,000 teams. That’s the challenge Tata Steel UK faced before turning to AG5. Read AG5’s full Tata Steel UK case study to learn how Tata Steel can now:

Give managers an easy-to-read overview of their teams’ skills
Leave behind outdated Excel spreadsheets and replace them with our modern skills matrix
Enable managers and staff to take full ownership of maintaining their records

Kingspan

Finally! Our skills matrices are now up to date and accurate

Tim klein Rot

Continuous Improvement Coordinator

Tata Steel

We’re light years ahead now we’ve gotten rid of Excel!

Joanne Kuipers

Ready to close the skills gap?

Let’s make it happen. Discover AG5’s intuitive solution.

How do skill gaps impact your manufacturing business?
A skilled workforce is vital to your business’s success. If your teams lack the necessary skills for the job, it exposes your business to risks such as:
- Loss of productivity
- Safety hazards
- Increased production costs
- Legal and compliance-related implications
What are common certifications in the manufacturing industry?
Specific certifications vary depending on the products and processes your company works with, as well as your location(s). With AG5 skills management software, you can monitor the status of any type of certification that is relevant to your workforce. Some common examples include:
- Certifications to handle specific tools and machinery
- Workplace health-and-safety training
- Company-specific (internal) certifications
What is predictive workforce monitoring?

With a predictive or proactive workforce monitoring approach, you track skill levels within your workforce to ensure your teams have the skills they need to perform effectively in the long-term. This is a time-consuming process, which has traditionally relied heavily on Excel spreadsheets, self-reporting, and manual audits. With AG5 skills management software, you will automate workforce monitoring, ensuring that your workforce possesses the right skills and undergoes training activities at the right times.
What should be included in a manufacturing skills matrix?

Each team requires the right set of skills to perform effectively. Some skills are highly specific to the team. For example, team members may require training to handle specific machines or processes. As manufacturing transitions to the age of Industry 5.0, technical and IT-related skills are becoming increasingly important. At the same time, mechanical, engineering and soft skills (such as communication and conflict resolution) are always important.

Not every member of the team needs to have all the same skills. Your skills matrix helps you ensure that the right skills are distributed among your team members. It also helps you identify missing skills, so you can provide additional training or expand your team as needed.
How can analytical skills help any manufacturing company?

With the rise of Industry 5.0, manufacturers will rely more heavily on robotics and intelligent machines to drive productivity. Your employees will need a broader range of technical skills to work effectively alongside new data-driven equipment. Analytical skills enable employees to spot opportunities to streamline operations. This helps your teams to work more efficiently, saving time and money, while optimizing your use of resources.

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Boost productivity with easy skills management

Identify

Prioritize

Develop

Provide

Measure

React

Keep production lines running

Real results achieved by our customers

Efficient, flexible, productive

Stay current – and fully compliant

As easy as API

See AG5 skills management software in action

Ready to close the skills gap?

How do skill gaps impact your manufacturing business?

What are common certifications in the manufacturing industry?

What is predictive workforce monitoring?

What should be included in a manufacturing skills matrix?

How can analytical skills help any manufacturing company?