Workforce Development

Launching an Apprenticeship Program for $130

This shop uses an inexpensive plug-in for a website-hosting platform to manage its custom, in-house apprenticeship program.

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EDM’s HMI Makes Job Management Flexible

GF Machining Solutions offers the AgiesCharmilles Cut E 350, incorporating a range of technologies designed to increase flexibility and accelerate time to market for medical manufacturing.

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Student Video Contest Promotes Manufacturing Education

Teams of students recently visited local manufacturers not just to educate themselves, but to produce educational videos for their peers, parents and students.

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Video: Update on Cardinal Manufacturing

State legislators produced this video promoting the Wisconsin high school shop program run as a for-profit business. See the shop for yourself at an open house May 18.

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Portable CNC Simulator Enables Milling, Turning Training

FANUC America offers its CNC simulator for educational use, providing learners with exposure to a FANUC control without the need for a machine tool.

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Aerospace

Machining Is Its Own Outreach, Says Young Engineer

Modern CNC machining technology is so distinct from other manufacturing operations that it will attract and draw in the people best able to fill the machining-related positions of the future.

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CNN Reports on Students Who Are “Paid to Go to College”

“This is so much more than a ticket through college—this is your life,” says a student quoted in the news network’s report on CNC machining apprenticeships.

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Meeting in the Middle

How does industry connect with millennials and introduce them to the high-tech world of modern manufacturing? By seeing beyond differences to what we have in common.

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Get out the Vote for Manufacturing Education

A group of local manufacturers is pairing with teams from various high schools on a video competition that aims to educate students, teachers and parents about industry career opportunities. Today is the last day to vote!

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What Makes Millennials Tick? Try Seeing Them Differently

A millennial’s take on why maybe it’s time to step back and examine how we talk about the next generation of manufacturers.

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