No hours of videos. No weeks of shadowing someone who's guessing too. Every task on your floor becomes a printed card that a worker signs off by demonstration, in the language they actually speak. It's not a binder nobody reads — it's how the plant runs.
Turnover doesn't stop, and a lot of that labor is temp or multilingual. What's supposed to fill the gap is usually a stack of videos and a few shifts following someone around — and that someone is often guessing too. The cost shows up as jams, bad adjustments, scrap, and downtime that traces back to one thing: nobody actually checked that the person could do the task before they were left alone with it.
TaskReady replaces "watch some videos and follow Bob around" with a structure: one task, one card, sign-off by demonstration. It works whether the next hire speaks English, Spanish, or Somali, and whether they're on their first shift or training the next person after them.
TaskReady is built on the same job-instruction method that trained wartime factory workers in the 1940s and later became the backbone of fast-food and franchise training — adapted for industrial floors.
Every job breaks into discrete, observable tasks. Each gets a one-page card: steps, checkpoints, pass/fail, safety callouts. No binders nobody reads.
Cards are photo/diagram-first with minimal text, translated where needed. Watching a video proves nothing. Doing the task in front of a trainer proves everything.
A hat or badge color shows role and level on the floor. Anyone can tell at a glance who knows a task, who can sign someone off, and who might need help.
Your own people deliver the training. We build the system and certify the first trainers — you don't buy ongoing dependence on us.
A person is trained when they demonstrate the task against the card, signed off by a certified trainer. The cards themselves are the audit record.
Every card in the library is built to the same four-level structure, from a brand-new hire's first shift to the person who owns and updates the standard.
Safely, by the card, every step checked. Signed off by demonstration, not seat time.
Production speed, self-checks, and the judgment to spot a bad result before it costs downtime.
Your own people teach and sign off from the card. You don't buy ongoing dependence.
Owns the cards themselves and updates them when equipment, film, or loads change.
Hat colors above are examples. The level structure and badge colors are designed around your plant.
Our demo plant is a fictional bottling line we built to prove TaskReady before selling it. Every task below has all three levels built and translated, straight from the real library — including Level 3, the trainer. Language isn't a ceiling on how far someone grows.
Every tier is a fixed-price engagement, not a per-hour bill. Every tier includes physical product — we print and provide the cards, wall signs, machine signs, matrix boards, and markers.
Pricing is scoped to your plant on a call — ask below for current numbers.
"I've worked dozens of hourly and industrial jobs since 2002 — fast food, warehouses, factories, controls. I didn't design this training model. I was trained by it, and later ran shifts using it, long before I ever fixed automated equipment for a living. What I hear on plant floors now is the complaint I almost never heard back then: nobody really shows people what to do anymore, because the systems that used to do the showing quietly disappeared. TaskReady is that system, rebuilt for industrial work." Jacob Ellingson, Founder, Ellingson Solutions LLC
A pilot covers one role or one work area: we break your tasks into cards, design your level structure, and certify your first trainers. If it doesn't change how fast your people come up to speed, stop there.