Manufacturing and industrials
AI and robotics training for manufacturing and industrials
This is the sector where the robotics catalogue does most of its work, and where the gap is rarely engineering. It is the operators who have to run the cell, the supervisors who have to keep it safe, and the managers who have to specify the next one without repeating what went wrong with the last. Training runs on the plant's own processes, on the machines actually in use.
Built around manufacturing and industrials work
10 courses · 63 facilitated hours
Robotics Investment and the Operating Model
A half-day for the people signing the cheque. Where the payback actually comes from, what it costs to run once the integrator leaves, and who in your organisation owns it on a Tuesday.
Addresses: Culture & Support, Responsible Use
Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite
Explore coursePreparing Your Team for Automation
The robot is the easy part. This course is for the managers whose people will work differently once it arrives: what to say and when, which roles change and how, and the skills plan that makes the change fair.
Addresses: Culture & Support, Confidence & Skills
Team Lead, Manager, Director / Head of
Explore courseSafety, Risk and Compliance for Robotic Workcells
The duties that sit with whoever runs the cell: risk assessment, guarding and interlocks, safe systems of work, and the records an inspector will ask to see. Delivered against your own site.
Addresses: Responsible Use, Culture & Support
Team Lead, Manager, Director / Head of
Explore courseSpecifying a Robotics Deployment
The document that decides whether a deployment succeeds is written before anyone quotes for it. Covers requirements, integrator selection, acceptance testing, and the clauses people wish they had insisted on.
Addresses: Tools & Access, Responsible Use
Manager, Director / Head of
Explore courseFrom Spreadsheets to Systems
Somewhere in your team a spreadsheet has quietly become the system: everyone depends on it, one person understands it, nothing backs it up. This course is about recognising that moment and moving on from it deliberately.
Addresses: Tools & Access, Daily Practice
Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager
Explore courseRobotics: What It Can and Cannot Do
A grounded introduction for people whose work is about to involve a robot. Separates what the technology genuinely does well from what the trade press implies, using real deployments and real failure modes.
Addresses: Confidence & Skills, Tools & Access
Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager
Explore courseRunning and Troubleshooting a Robotic Cell
For the people who own the cell on a shift. Covers the routine - changeovers, first-off checks, common faults - and the judgement of when to fix, when to stop, and when to call someone.
Addresses: Daily Practice, Tools & Access
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseVision Systems and Automated Inspection
Cameras that inspect every part sound simple until lighting drifts, false rejects pile up, and nobody trusts the reject bin. Hands-on with how inspection systems actually behave and how to keep them honest.
Addresses: Tools & Access, Daily Practice
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseWarehouse and Logistics Automation in Practice
Automated storage, mobile robots and conveyor systems as they actually behave in a working site: at peak, with awkward stock, and when one unit goes down mid-shift.
Addresses: Daily Practice, Tools & Access
Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager
Explore courseWorking Alongside a Cobot
Collaborative robots share a workspace with people, which makes them an operational and behavioural question rather than only a technical one. Hands-on with the daily reality: starting it, guiding it, stopping it, and knowing when not to.
Addresses: Confidence & Skills, Daily Practice
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseWhat this sector brings into the room
- The integrator leaves and the cell becomes yours
- Running and troubleshooting a robotic cell, first-line diagnosis, when to escalate and when not to. The cost of a stopped line is usually the argument that wins the training budget.
- Safety is a working practice, not a document
- Guarding, risk assessment, and the habits that survive a busy shift. Supervisors work through their own workcells rather than a textbook layout.
- Specifying the next deployment properly
- What to ask for, what the payback actually depends on, what it costs to run once the integrator has gone, and who inside the business owns it afterwards.
- The operations system is a spreadsheet
- A large amount of manufacturing runs on one workbook that one person understands. The technology track deals with that honestly, including when to leave it alone.
Also runs for any sector
These work the same way whoever is in the room. They are still delivered on your own material, so they are no less specific to you - the sector simply is not what changes them.
AI in the Executive Workflow
Senior leaders working on their own material rather than talking about AI in the abstract: board papers, briefing notes, analysis of a long document, and the tools that make it repeatable.
Addresses: Daily Practice, Tools & Access
Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite
Explore courseHR Technology Investment & Value
Challenge an HR technology business case using realistic costs, operational dependencies and evidence that employee services are improving.
Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite
Explore courseHR Transformation Strategy & Roadmap
Shape a practical HR transformation roadmap around employee experience, operating capability and measurable value rather than a list of tools.
Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite
Explore courseLeading People Change in an AI Workplace
Lead the people side of AI adoption with clear communication, participation and support as tasks, skills and working practices change.
Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite
Explore courseResponsible AI Governance for HR Leaders
Establish practical oversight of HR AI use: ownership, evidence, access boundaries and review of consequential decisions by qualified people.
Director / Head of, Executive / C-Suite
Explore courseEmployee Listening with AI
Use AI to organise fictional employee feedback into useful themes without losing nuance or presenting generated interpretations as facts.
Manager, Team Lead
Explore courseHRIS Selection & Connected People Systems
Define what your HR systems must do, evaluate them through practical scenarios and plan reliable data handovers between services.
Manager, Team Lead
Explore courseLeading an AI-Ready Team
For the managers who decide whether adoption sticks. Focuses on setting expectations, removing blockers, and building the team habits that survive after the training ends.
Addresses: Culture & Support, Daily Practice
Team Lead, Manager, Director / Head of
Explore courseLearning Operations & AI-Enabled Development
Connect learning needs, course design, delivery and evidence so development programmes support a measurable change in work.
Manager, Team Lead
Explore coursePeople Analytics for Better HR Decisions
Turn a people question into a defensible analysis using synthetic data, consistent metrics and a clear explanation of uncertainty.
Manager, Team Lead
Explore courseRedesigning HR Services with AI Agents
Design a bounded HR agent that can progress work, use approved records and return reviewable outputs, with clear permissions and recovery steps.
Manager, Team Lead
Explore courseRunning an AI Champions Network
Champions programmes fail politely: volunteers are named, nothing changes. This is for the manager who owns the network - choosing the right people, giving them time and permission, and keeping it alive after month two.
Addresses: Culture & Support, Daily Practice
Team Lead, Manager, Director / Head of
Explore courseSkills Mapping & Technology-Enabled Workforce Planning
Build a practical view of skills and future work, using AI to support exploration while keeping skill claims grounded in evidence.
Manager, Team Lead
Explore courseAI for Everyday HR
Use AI to draft, organise and improve everyday HR work while checking accuracy and keeping sensitive employee information protected.
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseAI Foundations for Every Role
A facilitated introduction for staff who have little or no structured experience with AI tools. Participants leave having used AI on their own real work, with a clear view of what these systems can and cannot do.
Addresses: Confidence & Skills, Daily Practice
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseAI Tooling and Integration Clinic
A short clinic for teams whose tools are in place but underused or disconnected. Run against your organisation's actual toolset rather than a generic demo stack.
Addresses: Tools & Access
Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager
Explore courseAI-Assisted Recruitment Operations
Improve recruitment coordination, role briefs and candidate communications with AI, while keeping selection decisions with accountable people.
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseDigital Onboarding & Employee Journeys
Create an onboarding experience that connects HR, managers and IT, using technology to make responsibilities and the next step clear.
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseEmbedding AI in Daily Workflows
Moves participants from ad hoc use to repeatable practice. Each participant maps one of their own recurring workflows and rebuilds it with AI in the loop.
Addresses: Daily Practice, Tools & Access
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseGetting Value From the Tools You Already Own
Most organisations have more unused capability sitting inside licences they already pay for than in anything they are about to buy. This is a working audit of what you have, what it can do, and what to switch on first.
Addresses: Tools & Access
Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager
Explore courseHR Data Quality & Connected Records
Make people data usable before adding AI. Practise checking fictional HR records, defining ownership and fixing the causes of poor data.
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore courseHR Knowledge & Employee Self-Service
Prepare a trustworthy HR knowledge base and design an assistant that answers from approved sources and hands sensitive questions to a person.
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore coursePeople Operations Workflow Automation
Turn a repetitive people-service request into a clear workflow with ownership, approvals and a reliable handover when automation cannot help.
Individual Contributor, Team Lead
Explore coursePrompting and Output Verification
A working session on getting reliable results and, more importantly, on checking them. Built around the verification habits that separate occasional AI users from dependable ones.
Addresses: Confidence & Skills, Responsible Use
Individual Contributor, Team Lead, Manager
Explore courseWhich of these does your organisation actually need?
The readiness assessment scores each person across five dimensions and maps the gaps onto this catalogue, by department and by role. Five minutes per person, and it answers the question with a measurement rather than a guess.
