Company-Wide Training Testimonials

Routsis Training has been an invaluable asset to our company's Apprentice Program, allowing Mr. Chain to seamlessly train our employees in-house on all aspects of manufacturing and tremendously support our team's growth when skilled workers are hard to find!

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Having worked for decades in the plastics industry I am delighted to say that I learned something new in each course.

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Our team members are equipped through your training to better understand issues that may be caused by recycled plastics or to even participate in root cause analysis of mold qualification issues.

We also appreciate the quality and convenience of having our own portal. It provides information on who’s taking classes and how people are progressing. This makes it easy for us to manage the training…

We are excited about the opportunities the RightStart™ training package brings to SRG Global – training in injection molding to 500 people – to benefit, our customers, our SRG Global business and most importantly our employees‘ development.

We use this training at 12 plants overall… process engineers, tooling engineers, product engineers, quality and plating people… The more our people know, the better decisions they will be able to make. This is a tool for sharing knowledge across the whole organization – even people in our Mexican, European and Chinese facilities can train because you've made the training available in multiple languages…

As a technical recruiter, I've seen what works and what doesn't work—including what works and does not work in training… We had the Paulson tapes and discs, but were never really enamored with them because they lacked interaction and activities. We'd just sit in a room reviewing, and then take a quiz before moving on to the next tape.

Your training got us excited in a hurry because of the interactivity, not to mention the depth and scope of your offerings… Using the Routsis portal, we've been able to close the gap from an overall training and skillset standpoint perspective…

I’d like to thank Routsis for providing Entegris with outstanding plastics training for the last 20+ years. We started with your videotape training back in the day, and then moved to CD-ROM when it was in vogue. Today, more than 1,000 Entegris employees benefit from your top-notch online training programs.

Thanks to your training, which is available in multiple languages and includes relevant, related skill exercises, we’re able to thrive in what is a demanding space, where precision parts are vital and long product lifecycles and tight change-control measures are the norm…

The Routsis Training program has provided a systematic and structured approach to employee development. It enables us to assign, track, and ensure accountability for training completion—making it easier for management to monitor progress and identify skill gaps.

The platform delivers a consistent training experience for all employees, from support staff gaining general knowledge to those completing advanced processor training. For management, this means improved visibility, better workforce planning, and confidence that everyone is aligned in their understanding of processing methods and terminology. It’s a powerful tool for building a unified, capable team.…

Manar uses the Routsis RightStart™ program for a complete system of ongoing training within CEW and four other plastic injection molding plants, including one in Shenzhen, China. RightStart serves our workforce of 350 employees across those five locations.

Overall, we have found that Routsis’s training is greatly beneficial for new hires, has resulted in better efficiencies and less scrap, has led to reductions in cycle time, setup times, and troubleshooting times, provides advanced training to our advanced processors and expert partners, and is helping us build a training culture, which is crucial to staying competitive…

Our most impacted metric thus far is the reduction of scrap, as our production technicians have gained a much better understanding of what “right” looks like. They’re not “chasing bubbles” anymore trying to correct defects by trial and error because they understand the defects and how they came about.

Additionally, we have seen stabilization in turnover of our skilled labor pool. These employees have embraced the opportunity for personal improvement and advancement and have opted to stay on board when opportunity came knocking…

If you are looking for the right plastics training for your company, look no further than Routsis Training. With the ongoing skilled labor shortage, the primary thing we’re doing here at UPM is staff development. We want to be able to take any employee with the aptitude and willingness to learn, put them through the Routsis Training program, and let them carve out their own path.

As a result of working with Routsis, we’ve seen good results in all KPIs, from total overall efficiency, which takes into account scrap, downtime, and operator efficiency, to work order hours to the number of PMs per month and downtime hours for the tool room. The best result, though, is in creating a “UPM Way” of doing things consistently, and Routsis is helping us achieve that.…

NAL has been using the Routsis RightStart™ training program since 2013 as an integral component of our in-house molding technician training process. It has allowed us to train the new technicians we have needed to support our recent expansion activities so they can be more effective and efficient when either trouble shooting our equipment or developing new processes in support of our new product launch activities. Through RightStart™, NAL employees at all eight of our facilities in Illinois, Alabama, Michigan, and Indiana have access to online and hands-on plastics injection molding training…

Routsis’s RightStart™ program has played and continues to play a key role in that success by enabling us to teach best practices to our employees at multiple locations. Your training empowers our people, who in turn are empowered to deliver on MDI’s Quality Commitment to customers who purchase our highly complex injection molded parts and assemblies…

Nordson has been a RightStart™ customer for more than five years. We use Routsis to train at all levels and find the biggest benefit in having a common way to communicate about injection molding—how the machines work, what happens to the plastics, and so on.

It makes a big difference when everyone knows what things are called, and when we all use the same jargon to talk about scientific molding techniques or processing issues.…

My immediate goal was to stop the hemorrhage of people from the molding department. My secondary goal, although no less important, was to build up labor efficiency and speed to competency while giving people a picture of what a career in injection molding at JAE Oregon looks like. We have accomplished those goals.

Turnover has stabilized, efficiency is up, and employees now see a clear career path that maps to your training.…

We have found great benefit from the Routsis training and would recommend this for plastics companies that wish to start training right away and see tangible improvements to their operations…

We signed up for Routsis RightStart™ Training three years ago. The ongoing training, which includes both online and hands-on course work, covers all of our staff, who work approximately 30 machines from 35 to 730 tons, including handling devices and robots that operate around the clock.

Do we recommend Routsis and the RightStart™ Training program? The answer is yes. The people we have put through this system in most cases were entry level employees and had a great success rate of jump starting the transition to jobs such as quality control and set-up positions…

I wanted to thank you and your team for the two-day SmartTech training program you held here in Essentra’s Erie location. Our people took really well to the onsite portion, even the older guys who've been doing this work for 35 years, I wasn’t sure how they might respond, but because your trainer was so knowledgeable – and because the guys had gone through the SmartTech pre-training materials before the trainer arrived – they stayed engaged throughout, interacting and asking a lot of questions.

I know it’s going to take more than one training to break the behaviors they've learned after so many years, but we're off to a good start. They had an excellent introduction to scientific molding, and we’re actually hoping that some of them will want to do more advanced training later. We know that they more trained they are, the more efficient they'll be, and the better we can serve Essentra’s customers. …

We recently brought Routsis Training in for a two-day, onsite SmartTech Essential class. Although we already have a strong technical team, with a lot of experienced engineers, the program was very well received.

The training was and we appreciated all the time spent doing hands-on exercises. We also liked how you explained theory and then reinforced the training with hands-on exercises as they apply to our plant — and how you demonstrated and applied processing strategies. The online post-training provided a great review and introduced additional concepts. With the step-by-step instructions/ standardized approach as we can now apply the scientific methodology to other processes we're running.…

We recently had 9 associates complete a 3-day on-site SmartTech™ course and were pleased with the results. The training was conducted in our own plant utilizing our equipment and materials, which helped engage our staff greatly.

One of my process engineers who has attended various seminars stated unequivocally this was the best hands-on training he has received to date. I spent about an hour quizzing the newer technicians after the course was completed, and I was pleased to find they gained a deeper understanding of injection molding concepts, greater hands-on knowledge, and a new spark to learn more.…

TH Plastics recommends Routsis Training for plastics companies wanting to remain competitive in today’s global market. After asking around and hearing positive things about Routsis’s ability to deliver ROI, we signed on for the Interactive CD-ROM training, which is in use at our two Ohio manufacturing plants, as well as in our Michigan headquarters… In the first round, we put our mold setters and supervisors through the training. It has been very well received, with supervisors reporting that the training has been helping on the shop floor, enabling employees to address issues as they arise and to better understand the foundations.

The training has proved valuable from my end as well. I can run a report in seconds and easily see where each plant and individual is at. The launch was easy. And support has been excellent; the few times I ran into minor issues, the support team has walked me through within a matter of hours.…

Routsis Training's consulting and in-plant and online training have been invaluable, helping us to improve startup times, minimize scrap and troubleshooting, and improve product quality and consistency — all while making more than five changeovers each week. No small feat.

I thank the Routsis team for their support and work, and look forward to a long, mutually beneficial relationship…