Workforce Development
Complete "Reality Redesigned" Student Manufacturing Competition Series Now Streaming Online
The live competition created by Edge Factor involves junior high and high school students meeting challenges in engineering and manufacturing. Representatives from Mastercam, NIMS and MMS judge the competition. Watch the entire series for free.
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New Tech, New Talent at GF Machining
This year’s annual open house marked the debut of not only a new series of wire EDMs, but also an apprenticeship program designed to serve as a pipeline of application and service engineers for years to come.
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Bringing Automation to a Job Shop
A father-daughter team hopes to see big gains from the combination of a new HMC and a pallet-handling system to be installed later this year.
Read MoreA Common Workforce Problem That We Share
The challenges we face finding writing editors are similar to those you face finding skilled machinists and machine operators.
Read MoreDeVry University Launches Advanced Manufacturing Training
The university has collaborated with 180 Skills to offer 11 online courses in a variety of advanced manufacturing skillsets.
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Contingent Staffing for the Machining Job Shop
Hiring additional staff is an option to increase capacity, but if the fluctuation in demand is unpredictable and of short duration, you can quickly end up with excess capacity and a fixed expense that is too large for a lower level of business.
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Mazak Hosts TMA’s 26th Annual Precision Machining Competition
Over 250 high school students from Illinois submitted more than 300 parts for this year’s contest.
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Airbus, Dassault Systèmes Hold Dual Grand Openings at Wichita State University
The two companies kicked off their respective residencies on WSU’s campus with facilities intended to collaborate with students and faculty in education and industry research.
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Identifying and Overcoming Skill Vulnerabilities in Staffing
This shop tracks cross-training as a performance metric. Management sees how many employees are fully capable of running each different type of machine tool. The data have helped the shop improve in this area, particularly since employees see the very same data as well.
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Manufacturing News of Note: April 2017
Sandvik Coromant opens a special automotive engineering project and training site, Stratasys launches an additive manufacturing consulting service, and other industry news.
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