Training the Next Generation: Manufacturing Day 2016, Bridging the Skills Gap
Manufacturing Day was started as a bridge to help close the skills gap.
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Training the Next Generation: PMPA & Manufacturing Day
PMPA is here to help you plan your own event for Manufacturing Day 2016!
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Cure the Entry-Level Employee Blues
Improve your screening process to find entry-level candidates that meet your expectations.
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Convenient Robot Training
This training consists of course modules that are self-paced, with videos, interactive simulations and practice exercises that enrich the virtual learning environment.
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Training the Next Generation: Machining a Great Career Choice– Matt Schowalter of Machiningcareer.com
Mr. Schowalter offers great advice to those interested in having a career in manufacturing.
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Taking the Complex Jobs
In an effort to hold onto domestic work, this shop invested in multispindle technology that provides a profitable way to handle complex parts. Get the whole story!
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Video: SkillsUSA Supports Career and Technical Education
This organization helps students excel by providing educational programs, events and competitions that support career and technical education in the nation’s classrooms.
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NIMS and Gene Haas Foundation Announce Scholarships
The program will provide scholarships to high-achieving SkillsUSA students showcasing their skills at the 2016 National Leadership and Skills Conference.
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Training the Next Generation: PMPA Offers Comprehensive Listing for Training Opportunities in the Precision Machining Industry
Simply search by state to identify the best training opportunities for your needs.
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Collaborative Addresses the Skills Gap
Education and workforce development are the bedrock of 21st century manufacturing.
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Training the Next Generation: The Value Vocational Education Brings to Manufacturers
Well-trained, supported students with opportunities for co-operative work experiences can begin to change the face of your shop and energize your manufacturing shop floor.
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PMPA Member Buell Automatics Finds Success Through Employee Longevity and Creative Internal Solutions
Since 1999, Buell Automatics has used PMPA as a key resource for information on tips, trends and insights into the shop floor of other members.
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Automate to Eliminate Non-Value-Added Labor
Automation should free up employees to add even more, higher value-added items to your operations.
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Training the Next Generation:Students: Prepare for the World of Advanced Manufacturing
85% of PMPA shops responding to our monthly surveys state that the outlook for employment is steady or improving.
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Apprenticeship Can Fill Our Skills Gap
If you don’t grow or produce anything, you’ll have nothing.
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CAD Viewer Helps with Job Estimating
Vero Software has recently released a high speed 3D viewer that directly displays and evaluates 3D CAD files without the need for the original CAD application.
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Emuge Donates Cutting Tools for Training
Emuge Corp. has recently donated hundreds of high performance taps, end mills and other rotary cutting tools to Quinsigamond Community College of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Your Job Matters
I often think about the significance of my job in the big picture. I wonder how important what I do is to the greater good of society. I question if I’m in the right position to contribute to the best of my ability or if I should be doing something that allows me to more directly see results.
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Seco Tools Makes Tool Donation to Training Centers and Schools
The selection of tools included a variety of high quality solid carbide, high-speed steel and cobalt end mills used for milling operations.
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Another Look at Training
Two different approaches to training get the majority of attention—general training of potential shop employees (such as that taught in trade programs) and training of existing employees on a shop’s specific equipment and environment.
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