Optimize operations with custom eLearning

There are several key factors that impact the ROI of eLearning for manufacturing:

• Custom eLearning is more scalable and cost-effective than instructor-led training (ILT), especially across multiple shifts or locations. It reduces costs tied to travel, scheduling, and downtime.
• We help you meet key KPIs, such as lowering safety incidents, ensuring compliance (OSHA, OH&S), reducing equipment downtime, improving first-time quality, and speeding up onboarding.
• Training all employees—from new hires to experienced staff—helps preserve critical knowledge, supports retention, and improves your ability to attract skilled workers.
• Well-trained teams work more efficiently, make fewer mistakes, and maintain higher quality standards. This reduces rework, safety violations, and costly disruptions.
• By managing your eLearning program, we free up your internal team to focus on core operations while still delivering plant-specific training that meets safety and production standards.
• ROI also includes the cost of not training—regulatory risk, onboarding delays, and preventable safety incidents can lead to major losses.

Training also supports retention. It costs more to replace skilled workers than to keep them. Clear training paths help employees grow and stay, reducing turnover.

Our Custom Learning team helps create training content that ensures your employees don’t just complete training, but learn, internalize, and retain information they need to succeed:

Engagement

To ensure your courses are engaging and valuable, we begin by working closely with you to deeply understand your members’ unique needs, current knowledge, and specific learning objectives. 

Based on this understanding, we employ tailored multimodal strategies, including storytelling, to present information in the most effective tone and context, conveying the “why” behind their learning for maximum relevance. We can provide robust accessibility features to all your courses, ensuring every employee has a productive, enriching, and ultimately valuable training experience.

Comprehension

We use expert instructional designers to distill complex operational content into clear, engaging, and logical eLearning modules. These are enriched with interactive multimedia, such as explainer videos and hands-on simulations, all precisely tailored to your company's specific equipment, safety procedures, and operational environment to ensure maximum relevance.

This customized approach creates a safe space for practical skill development, moving beyond passive learning to actively improve knowledge retention and on-the-job application. The result is a deeper understanding of critical technical information and safety protocols, enabling your workforce to perform more effectively and safely.

Retention

We help boost knowledge retention by having expert instructional designers transform your complex manufacturing content into engaging, interactive eLearning, precisely tailored to your specific operational environment, equipment, and safety procedures. This relevant, hands-on approach, using tools like realistic simulations for safe practice, ensures your employees not only understand but durably retain and effectively apply critical information on the job, combating the "forgetting curve."

The cost of eLearning development depends largely on the project scope and what features are included in the final product. Features like the level of interactivity, content readiness, custom graphics, etc., all contribute to the overall project cost.

For example, developing a 15-minute eLearning course can cost between $3,000 and $25,000. 

• On the low end of the scale is a non-narrated course where the eLearning content is nearly ready to be migrated into a course.
• On the other end of the spectrum, imagination is the limit with a highly interactive, possibly gamified course that includes narration, accessibility, and instructional design support. 

The cost of your eLearning course reflects several factors, such as content readiness, interactivity level, add-ons like narration or virtual avatars, and other features of your final product.

For an in-depth explanation of the eLearning development cost for your course, request a free quote for your eLearning project.

Our Custom Learning team offers a total approach to your eLearning project—whatever you require to create training that meets your vision, we have the resources to provide it. Whether you need instructional design assistance, eLearning development, or consulting, we can help!

• Our processes are flexible and based on your needs, but many of our projects follow these steps, which are tried and true and built for success—check out our past eLearning successes. 
• Working with you to determine the scope and goals of your training and creating a plan
• Assessing the state of your current training materials and branding requirements
• Defining pre-course development assets, including learner personas and storyboard mock-ups 
• Using your authoring tool of choice to develop a design demo for your project
• Developing eLearning resources using your approved design and storyboard
• Adding enhancements to your project, like gamification, graphics, and custom interactions
• Completing quality control reviews and providing additional feedback opportunities

At the end of your project, we will provide you with the final project files and published outputs, which are ready for your learners and your LMS. We can also offer ongoing assistance, such as eLearning course warranty, publishing updates, or content revisions.

The Custom Learning team takes a partnership approach with our clients: Your success is our success, and we will work with you in whatever capacity you require to ensure stellar, effective training courses and content. 

Your dedicated project manager and lead Instructional Designer can help guide your project, provide content and design advice, and identify risks and mitigation strategies for any issues your project may encounter. We can also help your project stay on track by creating workback schedules that consider your workloads, supporting project check-ins that match your communication preferences, and collaborating with you every step of the way.

Whatever degree of help or guidance you need for your project, we’ll meet you where you need us.

Neovation’s Custom Learning team understands that technical accuracy is a top priority for manufacturing companies, so we always take a hands-on approach when supporting energy clients.

Through a combination of interviews with in-house experts, discovery meetings, and analysis of existing documentation and knowledge, our team ensures that we can speak confidently and clearly about the technical knowledge required for a project. Where appropriate and approved, our team leverages AI tools like NotebookLM and Gemini to create project efficiencies and enhance your project.

If your project’s scope changes during development or if you decide to pivot its focus, the Custom Learning team will support whatever changes you feel are needed. We use a flexible, points-based pricing system that allows clients to shift priorities as their projects evolve.

For example, if clients plan for a video-based slide in their training but the content is better suited for an infographic, they can augment other parts of their training using the points they saved from video production.

Our top priority is to deliver your training courses on a timeline that works for your company. We’ll work with you to determine a timeline based on the following factors:

• The readiness of your source material and knowledge
• The complexity and design level of your desired eLearning course
• The scope of your project

The Custom Learning team will prioritize your timeline using a waterfall development approach so we can simultaneously complete multiple pieces of content for different stages of your project.

Neovation’s Custom Learning team can create interactive eLearning content that augments your training to be more effective, engaging, and memorable. Our team will recommend interactive content that best suits your learning objectives and learner needs. 

Beyond choosing the type of interactivity, you can select the level of customization each interactivity will have, depending on the content you’ve planned for your course.

To see examples of some of the interactive content we can create for your training, check out our eLearning interactivity glossary. 

You, the client, own all courses created by our eLearning development and instructional design team. 

During your project, we will keep the training materials you supply in a secure, cloud-hosted directory that is only accessible to our team. Our team is internally governed by policies for safe file storage, sharing, backups, and deletion of client-supplied materials, and for greater peace of mind, we can sign an NDA.

Finally, with your permission to use AI for your project, we follow a specific AI policy to ensure your sensitive information isn’t used for learning purposes.