Work Instruction Software Free Till Pandemic Ends

The rampant spread of COVID-19 has reinforced the need to capture knowledge and share it rapidly. To help companies use best practices to combat many ongoing issues, VKS (Chateauguay, QC, and Binghamton, NY) is offering VKS Lite work instruction software for free for the duration of the pandemic.

Providing an integrated platform for data collection and live productivity monitoring, VKS makes the creation, deployment and management of work instructions simple and efficient. Specifically, VKS Lite enables manufacturers to standardize best practices and maintain consistency in their production. Users can also transfer “tribal knowledge” into the VKS work instruction software and train new employees faster.

By switching to Expert Mode, a company’s existing skilled workforce can display only the most crucial steps of the assembly. Manufacturers can create Certification parameters to ensure that only operators with specific training have access to Guidebooks and work instructions.

In a statement on VKS’s website, the company offers thanks to frontline healthcare workers, police, military, security guards, grocery store cashiers, factory workers and all other essential workers who are “still working hard to keep the world running.”

The company also states, “We all – the VKS family and the world in general – are in uncharted territory, we need to stand by each other in this difficult time. It is imperative that we as a society, remain calm, not panic and most importantly work together to ensure that we get through this with the least amount of harm to both ourselves and the economy.

“To protect you and your families, our business, and the communities we live and work in, we’ve implemented strong measures to dramatically reduce the risk of exposure here at VKS. By doing so, we will live up to our social responsibility by preventing the virus from spreading further, while ensuring the business continuity that supports and enables our customers and the economies they operate in. These minor adaptations will allow us to maintain our high customer service levels for all our clients.”