Engage Employees and Stakeholders with Plant Tours Communications
What can make an average plant tour for teaching and training purposes standout? It starts with a factory tour where employees or stakeholders can have a two-way conversation. Not only can stakeholders see the process, they can hear how the process works from your factory managers. Having easy to use, customized plant tours communications devices plays a big factor in the overall success of your tours.
A Major Factor in the Engagement of a Plant Tour Is Audio Quality
A common mistake in conducting facility tours is assuming people can hear your trainers or guides in a noisy plant environment. And then one-way communication can be stilted and awkward, especially when you are seeing all the ingredients or steps that go into creating a product.
With two-way communications devices that both transmit and receive audio , problem solved. Tour guides can easily and clearly communicate with participants both indoors and outdoors. Hearing is Enhanced to such a degree that not one word on the tour will be missed – or misinterpreted.
Two-Way Communication Is More Satisfactory and Safer
Comfortable and light- weight industrial tour headsets mean that you have heavy-duty equipment for a heavy-duty environment. Trainers and guides can walk around hands-free, which helps to address safety issues. By negating heavy and cumbersome equipment, guides have more freedom to express themselves and show the intricacies and safety features within the plant.
In turn, new employees can wear a transceiver around their necks accompanied by a headset, earphone, or their personal headset for enhanced hearing. With the push of a button, they can speak into the microphone when they have questions or comments.
Two-way communications systems can easily be programmed to allow everyone to hear questions and answers. Systems eliminate the frustration of disjointed hearing on noisy plant floors, with distance and high ceilings often posing a challenge to communication. Our clear hearing solutions leave everyone feeling heard, satisfied, and most importantly with a better all-around learning experience.
Product Engagement Makes Tours More Memorable
When you can examine tools and devices, labels and promotional items, chips and components, or sample a product through a tasting, you will recall and retain the information presented longer and more clearly.
Using industrial tour headsets increases the ease of creating an organic tour with clear communication on what the nuanced rules of the factory floor are, plus a clear understanding of what can be seen up close and perhaps touched.
A study from Boston University shows a combination of sight and sound helps adults learn basic visual tasks more rapidly. The study suggests “using stimuli that involve both vision and hearing can be combined to produce speedier learning of visual information and suggest that multi-sensory training programs may be more effective for adults learning new skills — such as discriminating differences between highly similar objects, or finding an item in cluttered scene.”
Communication with Clients Is Important
Effective relationships with employees or stakeholders begins with excellent communication on a plant tour. Clients visiting your facility can see how you work, which is a crucial step in developing business relationships.
Moving from a transactional mindset and improving the way you connect and coordinate with your suppliers/clients could lead to advantages in the speed and efficiency of procuring products, reducing lead times, and improving or increasing orders.
Plant Tours Enhance Relationships
Plant tours should be seen as a relationship building tool which will reap more long term benefits in building brand and company ethos awareness. By sharing your factory process in a clear and concise manner, you provide employees and stakeholders with a fresh understanding of your company and your industry as a whole.
Using plant tours to connect and build great supplier relationships leads to better service, better pricing, and better outcomes for current or future projects/orders.
Tours also benefit local students to garner goodwill or extend a brand building exercise for potential future employees.
Earning the trust of these various stakeholders and involving them in your facility from the earliest stages ensures they become strategic partners and perhaps vested in your company’s success.
Assessment Tells Your Best Story
Evaluating your company and your products is possible from a distance, but nothing compares to hearing about your whole story like a plant tour.
Stakeholders and employees may already be familiar with your product range, but the benefits of a factory tour will enable them to see – from the inside – the way your business works, how you manage your processes, production runs, what your quality management looks like, and how sustainable and responsible your manufacturing is on a consistent basis.
Valuable assessment can only take place if there is clear, two-way communications from the outset.
Knowledge Is Power
Factory tours are a powerful way to learn first-hand how your products come together. Speaking face-to-face with the experts on the floor, seeing the materials and activities that go into the manufacturing process, and witnessing the final quality checks not only provide intimate knowledge of that particular product, but hearing details of the innovative manufacturing processes witnessed can enhance the overall experience with your company.
With Tripp Communications Systems, imparting your company information is easy and reliable. Investing in plant tours communications can ensure you are sending the appropriate message about your company. We can assist with all of your needs from:
- Consulting
- Customized recommendations
- Transceivers
- Receivers
- Earphones
- Neck loops
- Lanyards
- Docking stations
- Chargers
- Batteries
- Assistive systems
- Audio streaming servers
- Software applications
With over 30 years in this industry, we know enhanced hearing equals enhanced engagement. Contact us today for a complementary consultation to learn which two-way communications devices could enhance your plant tours.