Yamato Training Programs

Yamato Corporation offers a variety of training programs covering basic scale operation, maintenance, and advanced applications. Courses are available in our Grafton, Wisconsin, or Lake Forest, California, technology centers, or on-site in our customers’ facilities.

Training classes are taught based on a set curriculum emphasizing “scale basics” plus easy-to-understand practices which will help optimize speed and accuracy. Yamato will ensure the proper training for your employees to improve the performance and longevity of your Yamato equipment. Here’s a few reasons how training from Yamato can improve your facility’s productivity:

1. Informed operators who are able to identify routine maintenance to avoid unnecessary downtime
2. Optimized machine performance to ensure desired target weights and speeds are achieved
3. Improved facility safety from enhanced equipment familiarity overall

Contact Yamato to learn more about our training programs.

Training at a Yamato Technology Center

Benefits of conducting training in a Yamato Technology Center include:

• Classroom environment
• Students run scales that are not in production
• Students will not get pulled out of class for emergencies
• Students will be able to take apart scales without disrupting production
• Hands-on troubleshooting after instructor “breaks” the machine
• Class size is limited to 8 attendees to allow for maximum instructor time
• Classes are taught on a set curriculum emphasizing scale basics and best practices
• Advanced applications training also available
• Bilingual training available

On-Site Training at Customer Facility

On-site instruction generally consists of 3 hours of classroom training followed by 3-4 hours of hands-on training per day. Instruction greater than 8 hours per day – across several shifts – is available, but not recommended, unless more than one instructor is used.