Education
Apprentice Training - Precision Inspection and Measurement
Here are some basic principles concerning inspection and measurement to take into account when developing your related technical instruction (RTI) plan.
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Third Graders Becoming Molding Experts?
Third grade students from Chatham Charter School got energized and inspired during a day of learning and real world problem solving in injection molding at RJG's North Carolina facility.
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Skills Center: Apprentice Training - Shop Math
Older workers insist on the need for more in-depth shop math, while the younger generation says that extensive use of computers in design and CAM make it unnecessary. Both are correct.
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Rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, rapid manufacturing—so why not rapid workforce training, but with a real purpose?
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Choosing the Right Way Forward in a Changing Trade
The right control decision enables higher learning and higher performance. This mold and die maker has a state-certified apprenticeship program, and is using machine tool technology to invest in the future of its employees and grow its business. Siemens shares this story.
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Tech Tour Brings AMBA, SPE Members Together to Inform
The American Mold Builders Association's Chicago Chapter and the Society of Plastics Engineers' Mold Technologies Division partnered recently to provide a forum for learning and networking.
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3D Printing Safety Concerns
The latest edition of our AM Magazine puts safety front and center with a story on how the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center takes a safety-first approach in additive manufacturing training, tackling often-overlooked safety concerns. Also includes a peek at my recent visit.
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Skills Center: Apprentice Training - Setting Expectations
Expectations for employee work habits should be established with each new hire on the first day of work and then followed up on in regular meetings.
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Skills Center: Apprentice Training - Work Ethic and Attitude
Once a new employee is hired, it is the company’s responsibility to teach that new hire the requirements and expectations of the position, including how to work with good work ethic and a positive attitude.
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Out-Takes: Apprentice Backstories
There’s always more of a story to tell when we’re composing features about the places and people of moldmaking. Here are a few that correspond with one of our January feature articles.
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