Workforce Development
Smaller Collaborative Robot Helps with Routine Jobs
FANUC introduces its CR-7iA collaborative robot providing a payload of 7 kg.
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TMA’s Training 2.0
A different and newly equipped training program addresses the needs of Illinois-area manufacturers as those needs have changed in recent years. The success of the new program suggests questions for leaders in other regions of the country.
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Shop's Own Training Program Paves a Pathway to Employee Success
This shop developed a Web- and video-based training program tailored to its own specific practices that enables new hires to progress in stages from trainee to senior process engineer after demonstrating a clear understanding of each new skill they’ve acquired.
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Additive Manufacturing Training Center Opens in Louisville
The UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center provides training for beginners through advanced AM users.
Read MoreSMTCL COO Receives School Honor for Contribution to Manufacturing Education
Jerry McCarty has been volunteering for years in the school district.
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Infographic: Careers in Welding
An illustration summarizes the work, compensation and opportunities in this field. Those opportunities sometimes involve travel and increasingly involve automation.
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Webinar: How to Meet the Skilled Labor Demands of Additive Manufacturing
The additive manufacturing workforce is an overlooked component of succeeding with AM. Register for the February 18 webinar by Chris Krampitz of UL.
Read MoreSmartCAMcnc Opens Training Center in Oregon
The facility will begin classes in March 2016.
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A Virtual Approach to CNC Training
One way to take the fear of crashing an expensive machine out of CNC training is by using simulation software that features programming methods actually used on the shop floor.
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A New Take on Machine Tool History
An enlarged, updated and revised edition of “The American Machine Tool Industry” by Albert B. Albrecht is now available. This new book includes a discussion and analysis of the industry's resurgence since the start of the new century, but retains the author’s personal but perceptive interpretation of its history when U.S. builders were the dominant force in the global machine tool industry.
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