Workforce Development
Fast-Track Training
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.
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Learn the Keys to Shop Training and Filling the Skills Gap
On November 17 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, Ray Coombs, president of Westminster Tool, will present a free Webinar with MoldMaking Technology and share key strategies his company uses to not only improve toolmaking operations but to also fill the skills gap that so many mold shops are facing today.
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Finding, Training & Retaining Employees
In this multi-part series of articles, contributor Ryan Pohl, a journeyman CNC machinist who also holds a master's degree in industrial training and development, addresses the skilled-labor shortage and its potential to dramatically hinder the future sustainability and growth of the moldmaking industry.
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NIMS Partners With Grant-Winning Apprenticeship Program
Focus:HOPE is one of the latest examples of a manufacturing training program getting attention from the highest levels of government.
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Another Look at a Compelling Succession Story
An article in a sister publication offers a nice complement to MMT’s own coverage of the Bales sisters, who took over their company under tragic circumstances.
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Getting Real about Manufacturing Ed to Fill the Skills Gap
Learn the key elements of a local teaching strategy from Cardinal Manufacturing and Northwoods Manufacturing on Thursday, September 03, 2015 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST.
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A Successful Succession
The Bales sisters have brought their family-owned company a long way since taking the reins in the wake of an unexpected tragedy in 2009.
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Apprenticeship Milestone Portends Promising Future
This shop has been training new toolmakers for decades, but its newest apprentice took a different track than most: he started hands-on work on the floor while still in high school.
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Putting Design in the Driver’s Seat
Being an engineering-driven mold manufacturer has dramatically impacted this shop’s efforts to automate processes, develop its workforce and expand into new types of business.
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Feds Intrigued by North Carolina Apprenticeship Programs
Seeking workforce development models that could be replicated on a national level, the U.S. Labor Secretary and other officials have visited two mold manufacturers in the Tar Heel state this year alone.
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