Advantages
- Tailor-made course content with use of REAL company situations/examples.
- It is usually less expensive than off-job training
- Learning will take place using the equipment which will be actually used
- Trainees learn more rapidly
Disadvantages
- Possibility of poor instruction and insufficient time
- Trainee may be exposed to bad work practices
- A large amount of spoiled work and scrap material may be produced.
- Valuable equipment may be damaged.
- Training takes place under production conditions that are stressful, i.e. noisy, busy, confusing and exposing the trainee to comments by other workers.