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The organization will work to expand competency-based apprenticeships.

Focus:HOPE is one of the latest examples of a manufacturing training program getting attention from the highest levels of government.

Maintaining national industry standards inside the classroom is no easy task but the faculty and staff of Eastern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center once again rose to the challenge and officially renewed the national accreditation of the Machine Tool Technology program.

In 2015, NIMS issued 21,420 industry-recognized credentials, resulting in a 20% increase in credentials issued in the United States from 2014.

Innovative, five-step method establishes effective and focused on-the-job training in a short period of time.

Autodesk and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) partner to establish the first-ever industry standards to equip students and workers with in-demand CAM skills and credentials.

The NIMS recently announced that it awarded a record number of credentials last year--nearly 60 percent more than in 2012.

Right Skills Now focuses on in-demand skills in CNC operations, programming and machining, which will account for 14 to 22 percent of job growth by 2024, according to NIMS. Let's take a look at this unique initiative.

The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) has formed an educational partnership with Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) – one of the new national manufacturing innovation institutes -- and Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana to train community and technical college instructors, as well as industry trainers, in industrial technology maintenance (ITM).

The National Institute for Metalworking Skills helps organizations transfer GD&T knowledge and skills; it teaches an organization how to embed GD&T across all lines of communication.