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Your challenges

A sheet read is not a skill learned. The right procedure is learned where it is done.

A forgotten step, a reversed order, a skipped check: the procedure was written, the task was not learned. Guided on the real equipment, in the right order, everyone rehearses the procedure as often as needed, before doing the job for real.

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Gloved hands hang a “Work in progress, no entry” sign in front of a press, before intervening.

The situation

Errors slip in between the sheet and the task.

According to the INRS, a significant share of machine-related accidents occur outside production, particularly during maintenance, cleaning or adjustment1.

Safe energy isolation, lock-off and authorisation

Before intervening, every step counts, in a precise order. The sheet describes them; you still need to have done them often enough not to forget any.

Rare tasks

Maintenance, cleaning, adjustment, exceptional interventions: they are done too rarely to master. That is where people hesitate.

Quality errors

A reversed step, a forgotten check, and the defect goes to the customer. In the automotive industry, the IATF 16949 standard requires work instructions that operators understand and that are available at the workstation2.

An instruction read far from the workstation

Read in a classroom or signed at the bottom of a page, the instruction is not yet a skill. At the workstation, hands are busy and eyes are on the equipment.

What SHIFT89 changes

The right procedure, in the right order, rehearsed before intervening.

  • On the real equipment

    Each step appears where action is needed, in the order of your procedure: the checkpoint is in plain sight, nobody has to look for it.

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  • Hands-free

    Both hands stay on the tool, eyes on the equipment: no tablet to hold during the intervention.

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  • Verified learning

    A quiz checks that the procedure is understood; you see who has learned what, and where people struggle. Assessment and authorisation remain yours.

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  • A few minutes

    After an incident or a change, your expert updates the tutorial in a few minutes: everyone immediately learns the new way of doing things.

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Our approach

First, understand how a hands-on skill is learnt. Only then, the tool.

Before designing our tool, we studied how people learn to do with their hands what they cannot yet do.

  1. A learning method from our research work

    With research laboratories, we studied how people learn a task they don’t know how to do, in a constrained environment. The aim is not to make people act like robots: it is for everyone to understand, remember and own the skill. This method is validated by 5 industrial PhD theses.

  2. A creation method within every expert’s reach

    The real challenge is creation: experts don’t have time, and not all of them are comfortable with digital tools. They create their own tutorials, very quickly, with the help of the built-in AI, and these tutorials apply the learning method without them needing to know it.

  3. The tool we wish we’d had

    As former industry professionals, we know every second counts: the expert’s time must be kept as short as possible. We also know the value of trade or defence secrets: everything works offline, without compromise, artificial intelligence included, right down to translating a tutorial in a few seconds.

The result: tutorials created in a few minutes, that really make people learn.

The method and its evidenceOur approach

At your site

Where the order matters as much as the hand.

In industry

Lockout before an intervention, batch changeover, line cleaning, press adjustment: the task rehearsed before doing it for real.

Industry

In the armed forces

Safety procedures on equipment, rare interventions in the workshop or on board: revise the procedure on the real equipment before you need it.

Defence

In schools

In France: The bac pro MSPC (vocational baccalaureate in maintenance) reference framework requires compliance with lockout and lockout removal procedures3: pupils rehearse them on the technical training area, in the right order.

What the tutorial does not replace

The tutorial prepares for and rehearses the task, on the real equipment, following your procedure. It replaces neither safety training, nor the authorisation issued by the employer, nor assessment at the workstation.

Your rules, your instructions and your supervision remain essential: the tutorial makes them easier to apply, it does not replace them.

Measured results

What our deployments have measured.

  • +90%RetentionAccording to our method, validated by 5 industrial PhD theses
  • 1 minTo create an instructionBy the expert, on the real equipment, with no writing or editing (measured in our deployments)
  • × 2Train twice as fast, autonomouslyMeasured in our deployments, at a tier-one automotive supplier

Automotive industry

A tier-one automotive supplier trains twice as fast

Autonomous operator training, guided in augmented reality on the real equipment.

Result: training speed doubled.

All our case studiesOur method and its evidence

Frequently asked questions

Your questions.

Does a tutorial replace authorisation or safety training?

No. Authorisation is issued by the employer, after training and an assessment that remain yours. The tutorial prepares for and rehearses the task, on the real equipment, following your procedure.

After an incident, how quickly can the way of working be changed?

In a few minutes: your expert updates the tutorial, and everyone learns the new way of doing things on the equipment.

Does the tutorial guarantee there will be no more errors?

No, and no tool can. It helps avoid omissions by showing each step in the right place, in the right order, and a quiz checks that the procedure is understood. Vigilance, supervision and your safety rules remain essential.

Your other challenges

Sources

  1. INRS, “Machines : ce qu’il faut retenir” (12/10/2022) — www.inrs.fr/risques/machines/ce-qu-il-faut-retenir.html (new window) (consulted on 26/10/2026)
  2. IATF 16949:2016, requirement 8.5.1.2 “Standardized work – operator instructions and visual standards” (paid standard, no online version) (consulted on 26/10/2026)
  3. Référentiel du baccalauréat professionnel Maintenance des systèmes de production connectés (MSPC), order of 9 December 2020, Éduscol — referentiels-professionnels.eduscol.education.fr/bac_pro_MSPC.html (new window) (consulted on 26 October 2026)

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