Talk:Training Within Industry
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[edit] TWI did not disappear after the war.
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- I would like to add this information, along with future edits pending the communities consensus*** —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.57.41.39 (talk) 00:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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This posting is dated 3/13/08, by Bryan Lund. I just spent some time reviewing the TWI, Inc. materials located in the Western Reserve Historical Society Library in Cleveland, OH. TWI, Inc. carried on the programs used in WWII by the TWI Service, commissioned by the WMC. TWI, Inc. was headed up by Lowell Mellen, a District Representative of TWI Office District #10 Northern Ohio. TWI, Inc. existed for 20 years before it was sold to Robert Murphy in 1964.
TWI, Inc. won the first contract to train Japanese in JIT through the ESS a section of the GHQ SCAP office - authorized by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. TWI, Inc. is directly responsible for the spread of the TWI program in Japan to 30 JIT trainers in 1951. Those 30 trainers spread the program through the famed multiplier effect to an estimated 4-6 million Japanese workers between the years of 1951 and 1956. TWI won a second contract through the U.S. and Japanese governments in 1956 to refresh institute trainers. During this period, TWI, Inc. devised a Problem Solving Training program for JITA the Japanese Industrial Training Association. A follow up letter in 1960 suggests that 9,000 supervisors in Japan had been trained in the subsequent four years after the installation.
In addition to installing TWI programs in Japan, Mellen's coworkers installed a similarly sized project in Indonesia. Mellen's group was also heavily involved with hosting Japanese, Greek and Chinese nationals in industrial study tours during the late 1950's.
Throughout all of this, TWI had not disappeared in the U.S. TWI, Inc. archives at WRHS yield hundreds of client files in the Ohio, Buffalo, Western Pennsylvania areas. In addition to the industrial market in the Ohio region, former directors of the WWII TWI Service had started the TWI Foundation in Summit, NJ. Dietz and Dooley's group offered the same services as Mellen's covering the industrial areas of the east coast and in foreign countries as well.
Source: Lowell Mellen Collection. #1991-098. Location: Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland, Ohio.
