CASE STUDY  AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES


Contact: Nadine Rothermel,
Americas Learning Services Manager:
5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard,
Mail Stop 53U-VJ, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Telephone: (818) 879-6466, Fax: (408) 553-3443
ETP Funds: $3,670,000

Agilent Technologies is a global, diversified technology company focusing on high-growth markets in the communications, electronics and life sciences with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The company operates three businesses: test and measurement, semiconductor products, and chemical analysis and life sciences, all supported by a central research laboratory employing 43,000 world-wide and over 11,000 workers through out California. Agilent was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999 as part of a corporate realignment that created two separate companies.

With the help of the ETP, Agilent is investing in a worker-training plan that will help the organization become a high performing workplace. Agilent will train 8,000 employees located Statewide, across all occupations. Workers will receive training in Manufacturing, Computer, Business, Continuous Improvement, and/or HazMat skills based upon their job duties. A menu curriculum has been approved that includes a range of hours of classroom/lab, distance learning, computer-based training (CBT) and/or SOST. Herrera & Company was selected over five other ETP consulting firms to lead the ETP proposal.