Workforce Development

Labor Is Local

That鈥檚 one issue. Two others are 鈥渟tretch鈥 and cyclicality. Together they explain why manufacturing wages haven鈥檛 caught up with the demand for labor. What happens when they do?

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Video: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

February 21 is 鈥淚ntroduce a Girl to Engineering Day.鈥 Various companies and schools throughout the country are holding events, but the idea is a good one on any day of the year.

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Webinar Makes a Compelling Case for MTConnect

MTConnect is an industry standard that specifies a protocol for data communication between machine tools and other manufacturing equipment or systems. Mazak is an early adopter of MTConnect and a strong proponent of its benefits to improve overall equipment efficiency. A recent webinar sponsored by Mazak details how MTConnect can serve as a complete communications standard for an entire manufacturing facility.

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Change What You Say About Engineering

National Engineers Week starts Feb. 17. To kick off the week, we need to take a look at how we describe engineering careers.

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GF AgieCharmilles Opens Training Academy

The facility will serve existing employees.

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Automation

Is Automation a Job Killer?

A recent segment on 鈥60 Minutes鈥 suggests advances in robotics and associated technologies account for why the economic recovery so far has often been referred to as 鈥渏obless.鈥 An automation industry association takes issue with that conclusion.

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Can You Set Yourself up for Good Luck?

It鈥檚 possible to position yourself for encountering good luck more frequently.

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Integrated Automation Cell for High-Volume Jobs

Methods Machine Tools offers a pre-engineered integrated automation cell for manufacturing and deburring a high volume of like parts.

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Manufacturing Education Live at IMTS

At the Advanced Manufacturing Center at IMTS 2012, manufacturing instructor Craig Cegileski and his students from Eleva-Strum High School discussed "Filling the Skills Gap," a video complement to the September Modern Machine Shop cover story featuring the innovative (and thriving) manufacturing program at Eleva-Strum High School.

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Die/Mold

Mold Shop Cures the “Curse of Knowledge”

How do you transfer knowledge from skilled employees to apprentices? Here’s how one shop did it using a Facebook-like sharing system.

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