Workforce Development
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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Strengthening Manufacturing through Advocacy
Trade organizations are providing the guidance and resources needed to prepare students and women for careers in advanced manufacturing.
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Metrics for Assessing Maintenance Skills
Since the job description, qualifications, direction and goals may not be so clear, assessing a repair technician’s value can be confusing. Objective, tangible metrics are a must.
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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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Dodging the Skills Gap in CNC Programming
Sometimes the search for fresh, new and skilled employees is like a game of dodgeball.
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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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Ready to Vote: Manufacturers Engage Students One Video at a Time
The Eastern Advanced Manufacturing Alliance is engaging students and promoting manufacturing with a twist by holding its third annual student video competition with the theme “Connecticut Manufacturing - Join the Evolution.” And your vote counts.
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Making Another Industry-School Connection
The positive vibe for making manufacturing stronger through educational outreach programs is ringing from coast to coast.
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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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