About Us

Founding Partner

Donald A. Dinero, PE, CPIM has more than forty years of experience designing and implementing manufacturing methods and processes and is the founding partner of The TWI Learning Partnership. He has addressed problems in all aspects of operations including but not limited to change management, personnel, labor unions, production systems, and production control. His BS degree in Mechanical Engineering is from the University of Rochester and his MBA and MS (Career and Human Resource Development) degrees are from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Professional Engineering license (NYS) in 1983 and his Certification in Production and Inventory Control from APICS in 1986. 

Partner   D. Bart Crockett, MBA, BSME

Personal Quote: “It’s all about the people.  No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”

With a foundation in Mechanical Engineering from BYU and over 30 years of diverse career experience, I have developed a deep expertise in strategy deployment, product development, and leadership.

After obtaining an Executive MBA from the University of Utah, I transitioned into strategic leadership roles, contributing to the success of multiple companies and forging valuable industry connections.

I have taught Operations Strategy at the University of Utah for the past five years, where I have cultivated a strong curriculum that continues to grow in popularity.

My career highlights include leading process and product management teams to drive innovation and continuous improvement, creating new product development processes, and significantly enhancing productivity and product design.  I am writing a book about value creation and its roots in American history.  It includes the value improvement process, which encompasses Vision, Strategy, Problem Solving, TWI (Training Within Industry, Job Instruction), and Culture. As a certified Job Instruction Trainer, I have helped numerous companies to learn how to improve performance and implement TWI Job Instruction.
Mentored by Don Dinero in Job instruction in 2004 I have been on a mission to share the concept of training the trainer with others.  I am a certified Job Instruction facilitator and instructor with over 18 years of training others.

I also have applied Paul Akers, two second lean to help companies to improve manufacturing, servant leadership, and continuous improvement, recognizing people as a company’s greatest asset.  Helping leadership and teams to train the

trainer and to foster interconnected organizational success.

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What The TWI Learning Partnership Does

In 2002, Mr. Dinero learned about TWI (Training Within Industry) and its reemergence that was beginning in the U.S. He became certified as a TWI trainer in the three "J" courses and began to study all the material he could find on the subject. His studies and talks on TWI culminated in the book "Training Within Industry: The Foundation of Lean", published by Productivity Press.

As he continued implementing Lean concepts, he began to realize that the Lean movement is hindered by its omission of TWI training. TWI offers fundamental skills training which helps to stabilize an organization, preparing it to seriously begin its Lean journey. In order to assist in stabilizing organizations and thus assist in the acceptance of Lean, Mr. Dinero is concentrating his efforts on spreading the word of TWI. He delivers training in all three of the ‘J’ programs as well as Program Development. In keeping with the “multiplier effect” cited by the Training Within Industry Service, Mr. Dinero also offers Train The Trainer sessions for the three ‘J’ programs. This allows an organization’s employees to independently deliver the training.