MANUFACTURING KNOWLEDGE RETENTION TOOL
Edplay records how your best people actually do the job, turns that evidence into approved SOPs and training, and puts it in front of anyone at the point of work.
Turn the know-how in your best people's heads into approved knowledge, see who can do what on every machine, and keep critical skills in the business when people move on.
Record the real task on a RealWear headset while the expert talks it through. Edplay checks the footage against your existing procedures, links it to the right machine, and builds approved SOPs and interactive courses.
Explore capture
Analyse the documents you already have and the skills your people hold. See the gaps by person, machine and site, and get a clear recommendation of what content to build next.
Explore Workforce Intelligence
Flag retirement risk on critical roles, capture those experts first, and build ready-now successors, signed off skill by skill.
See knowledge retentionEdplay keeps every step tied to its source, so nothing reaches the floor until a person who knows the job approves it.
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Record the real task while the expert talks it through. Add the SOPs and manuals you already have.
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AI drafts the SOP and training. Every step traces to the recording or an approved document. A qualified person signs off.
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Approved knowledge linked to each machine. Operators get it mid-shift, in their own language.
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Retest against the plant's own competence standard. See who is qualified on every machine.
AI prepares. People decide. Approved knowledge, live skills data and proof of competence in one place.
Nobody has time to fill out documentation. So Edplay captures the job as it's done, on a RealWear headset, while the expert explains what they're doing and why.
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Links the recording to the person who did the work.
Take a device
A RealWear headset, or a phone where the site allows it.
Do the task, talk it through
Hands-free, first-person footage with the expert's own explanation.
Send for approval
Docking links it to the machine and prepares a draft SOP.
From a recorded task to an approved course. Line clearance on a contact lens blister packaging line, captured hands-free.
Hands-free, first-person capture on the devices your site permits. Phone capture is the starting route.
A floor station where headsets charge and upload when docked.
The same flow for pilots, smaller sites and site visits.
Captured footage is matched to the SOPs, manuals and standards in your Edplay knowledge base. Where they agree, the draft is built. Where they don't, a reviewer sees exactly why.
Start from the knowledge already in the business, so nothing is rewritten from a blank page.
The recording or an approved document. You can click through and check.
If your procedures and the footage can't back it, it doesn't reach the floor.
Then it's translated for every team, from the same approved source.
Footage, procedures and the expert's explanation are linked into one structured course that documents the captured process step by step.
Real footage, approved steps
New starters watch the person who did the task last time, not a stock animation.
Structured and interactive
Scenarios, branching dialogue, quizzes and short microlearning, aimed at the learning objective and audience.
Mid-shift, in their language
At the point of need, not in a classroom weeks earlier.
Ask Lia at the machine
Describe the problem and location. Get the approved step, with the video of how it was fixed last time.
Keep the approval gate: AI prepares the draft, people publish.
Edplay analyses the documentation you already have and the competency records you already keep, joins them into one capability map, and recommends exactly what content needs to be built to close each gap.
HR system
Who works here, on which shift
LMS
Who completed which course
Competency matrix
Who was signed off, and when
Quality system
Deviations, NCRs, CAPAs, audit findings
Maintenance
What broke, and who fixed it
The expert's head
How the job is really done
Every person, skill, machine and site in one view, with approved knowledge linked to each task. Each system answers its own question well. Together they answer the plant manager's: can this person safely do this job, on this machine, today?
Map skills, not attendance. Prioritise the gaps that matter, and tell a skill gap apart from missing approved knowledge, so you build the right content next.
76%
Readiness · target 85%
88
On target
224
Below target
45
At risk
Most shared gaps
"For the first time I can see which of our people can run which line, and whose knowledge walks out the door when they retire."
A team is at 61% against an 85% standard. The approved training exists.
→ Assign it to that group.
There isn't enough approved material to teach it. It lives in someone's head.
→ Capture the real work first.
Experienced operators are retiring faster than plants can replace them. Edplay helps you decide whose expertise to capture next, and build ready-now successors for every critical role.
He's retiring FridayMaintenance · 21 years of experience
When he leaves, what stays?
21
years on the line
0
skills documented
We don't impose our scale. ILUO, qualified and trainee, or your own levels: that's what gets recorded.
Protect critical knowledge. Use the gap and retirement-risk report to decide whose expertise to capture next.
| Critical task | Steve · 21 yrs | Successor A | Successor B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autoclave cycle | L3 | L2 | L1 |
| Seal integrity test | L3 | L3 | Due |
| Line changeover | L3 | L1 | L2 |
| Fault diagnosis | L3 | – | L1 |
L1 read · L2 trained and assessed · L3 observed on the floor
Conversations with operations, maintenance and reliability leaders across process and discrete manufacturing.
Chemicals"We were losing a lot of people for retirement… Some of these people have done 50 years of working there."
Operations leader, chemicals manufacturer
Refining"We're typically too busy to fill out the documentation… then we lose visibility of that as soon as they forget. Or they leave."
Reliability lead, refining
Medical devices"If we learn something here, how do we ensure that everybody in [our other site] learns the same thing quickly?"
Operations strategy lead, medical device manufacturer
3.8M
US manufacturing jobs to fill by 2033
Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute
12 weeks
From connected systems to proven competence in a pilot
Proposed scope
10 years
Building workforce training before Edplay
Three phases, one platform. Lock a baseline with operations before you start, then measure the gap closing, not the course finishing.
Phase 1 · Foundation
Turn the SOPs, videos and training you already have into approved material, in one standard template.
Moves: Hours per item, time to independent work
Phase 2 · Insight
Connect the systems you already run, see who knows what on which machine, and find the gaps.
Moves: Skill gaps closed, unplanned stops
Phase 3 · Scale
Add hands-free RealWear capture on the floor and roll out across lines and sites.
Moves: Time to fix a fault, scrap and rework
2 work areas · 25 contributors · 2 to 4 headsets · core connectors set up
Weeks 1 to 4
Connect and baseline
Weeks 5 to 8
Capture and verify
Weeks 9 to 12
Train and prove
Gap closure rate
Gaps closed against your baseline, on your own competence scale.
Time to competence
Days from a gap being found to qualified sign-off on the task.
Retest pass rate
Share passing on the first retest, not only training completion.
Reviewer edit rate
How much qualified reviewers change the AI draft before approval.
Built to connect with SAP, Workday, ADP, Paylocity, ServiceNow and Oracle. The models are interchangeable. The evidence stays with you.
On-premise, your cloud tenant, or isolated single-tenant.
Your SOPs and recordings never train outside AI.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit.
Bystander face protection and role-based access to footage.
Book a demo mapped to your plant, or a discovery call about your first pilot.
