Workforce Development

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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Automation

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.

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SMTCL COO Receives School Honor for Contribution to Manufacturing Education

Jerry McCarty has been volunteering for years in the school district.

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Automation

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.

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SmartCAMcnc 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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