Train operators on the job and record what they can run
Build training from the procedures you already have, run it at the station where the work happens, and hold each operator's qualification against a specific operation with a date it expires.
Getting a new hire ready usually means pulling an experienced operator off the line to walk them through the job. That works for one hire on one shift. A second site or a turnover spike puts your most productive person on teaching duty for weeks.
A spreadsheet tells you who was trained for what and when. It won't tell you whether that sign-off has lapsed, and it isn't open in front of the operator starting a job they've never run, so catching an unqualified operator depends on a supervisor remembering to look.
A new product introduction or an engineering change rewrites the method, and the training material is usually the last thing to catch up. Operators learn the new work at the station while the document still describes the old one.
Tulip's training apps deliver theoretical and on-the-job training at the station, built by the engineers who own the process. Because the training record, the skills data, and the production record sit on one data model, the qualification an operator earns is queryable by the app that runs the operation.
AUTHORING TRAINING CONTENT
Digitize operator guidance as a sequence of steps in Tulip, dropping in the video, images, and PDF content the job needs and adding logic with when-if-then triggers. Start from the training templates in the Tulip Library, or hand AI Composer an existing SOP and refine the draft.
AI SUPPORT AT THE STATION
Embed the AI Chat widget in a step and point it at a Tulip Table holding your procedures, manuals, and reference PDFs. An operator asks a plain-language question and gets an answer from those documents without leaving the app or hunting down a supervisor. The widget retrains itself whenever a record changes.
Training Data and Progress
See what training is assigned, what's been completed, and where each operator sits across four skill levels from beginner to expert, filtered by person, group, or task. Every app also records the duration of each step, so you can find where a trainee is slowest and watch that close.
Qualification and Access
A qualification record is held against a specific operation and carries an expiry date, so the status lapses instead of standing forever. Add a qualification check to a production app and it reads that record when the operator opens the job, then holds them at the step or lets them through.
Multi-Language Training
Tulip supports 30 different languages, set on the user's profile and switchable from the Player menu, with App AI Translation producing the translated content. Tiffany & Co.'s operators choose English or Spanish across 1,700 users. Content shows as translated only where a translation exists for that language.
Customer stories
See how leading manufacturers train operators, record qualification, and get new hires productive faster.
Tiffany & Co. runs Tulip across four North American sites and 1,700 users, with operators choosing English or Spanish and instructions translated by Tulip AI. Its case study reports training time down 80% for select products, rework down 40%, and new product introductions moving from quarterly to nearly weekly.
"We can share the best practices with everybody in a common platform that allows us to scale up and move faster than we ever have before."
Outset Medical launched two medical devices in under a year, replacing paper with apps that combine digital work instructions and electronic records. Guided instructions cut defects 70%, an AI troubleshooting app cut troubleshooting time 50%, and the team onboarded fast enough to hit the window.
"We introduced an AI-driven troubleshooting app that scans over 2,500 alarm codes and suggests the best corrective action, reducing machine downtime and repair time significantly."
Echodyne moved from paper build records to guided, operator-facing workflows tied to its PLM system, with AS9100 control points built into the steps. Operators see the current approved instructions instead of checking whether the document in front of them is the right one.
"The information is right at the fingertips of our operators, and they don't have to worry that their document that they're looking at is the latest version."
On Demand Pharmaceuticals automated much of its equipment interaction through Tulip apps, and uses those same apps to train operators on the equipment while they run it. No separate training content to keep in step with the process.
"Being able to automate a lot of our equipment with one app very quickly has been very useful, being able to use it as a real training guide as they're using the equipment."
Manufacturing training software delivers job-specific training to operators at the point of work and keeps the record of who is qualified to do what. It covers three jobs a generic learning system usually doesn't: guiding someone through an actual assembly, inspection, or changeover procedure step by step; recording a supervisor's sign-off that they can do it unsupervised; and holding that qualification against the specific operation, with a date it expires. Operator training software is the same category described from the trainee's side.
Training runs as apps built in Tulip's App Editor, from pre-built training templates in the Tulip Library that you configure. Training Manager is where you define trainings, assign them, and see completions and training analytics. Training Terminal is the operator-facing side, showing what's assigned to them and their own qualification status. Two templates cover the delivery: a theoretical one that presents video, text, image, and PDF content and ends in a self-assessment, and a practical one for on-the-job training that can require a supervisor's approval to complete.
Tulip AI Composer converts PDF documents into draft apps, extracting instructions, images, and data-collection points and proposing a structure you review before the app is created. It accepts PDF only, so Word documents and spreadsheets need converting first, and it supports linear documents and generates limited logic. Plan to refine the draft before it reaches a trainee. Training content and the work instruction stay separate artifacts in Tulip; the training templates carry their own content.
Every completed training writes a record to a Tulip Table holding the operator, the training type, the status (assigned, completed, or expired), the due date, a valid-from date, a valid-to date, and the reference it qualifies them for, which is a material definition, an asset, or an operation. Skills are tracked separately in Skill Manager at four named levels, from beginner to expert, with each skill scoped to a station or a product. The Skill Matrix widget displays users against skills, filterable by user, group, task, or level. Because these are ordinary Tulip Tables in the Common Data Model, you can query them from any app or automation rather than exporting a report.
Yes, through a step you build into the app. Tulip provides a pre-built qualification check you insert into a production app, and it queries the training table for that operator and that reference, then either lets them continue or shows an error. Since the check reads the qualification record at runtime, an expired status blocks the job the same way a missing one does. Because it's a step you place, you decide which operations are gated and at what point in the sequence the check happens.
Usually not. Tulip's certification approach is built for operations that don't have an LMS, or where integrating with the one they have isn't practical. Most manufacturers keep the corporate LMS for company-wide compliance, safety, and HR training, and use Tulip for the job-specific training tied to a live process and to a qualification checked at the station. If your requirement is a course catalog, learning paths, and enterprise-wide completion reporting, an LMS is the better tool.
Tulip supports 30 languages, with language set on the user's profile and switchable from the Player menu. App AI Translation is generally available and free on Enterprise plans, translating app content into the selected language; the underlying multi-language capability is an Enterprise feature. Content appears translated only where a translation exists for that language. Machine-translated content should get a local-language review before it reaches safety-critical work.
Because the qualification record and the production record sit on the same data model. When an operator completes practical training on an operation, the app that runs that operation can query the qualification directly, with no export or reconciliation step in between. The training content is authored by the process engineer who owns the process, so updating it after an engineering change doesn't need a ticket. Tulip is certified to ISO 9001:2015, maintains a SOC 2 Type II report, and supports SAML single sign-on with SCIM provisioning.
Bring your own SOP and see what a training app built from it looks like, and how the qualification it produces behaves at the station.