Workforce Development

Attracting The Workforce Of Tomorrow

Toolmakers and precision machinists know that it is a lot easier to get the job done if you have the right tool, and it is even easier if you can use a standard tool instead of making a customized tool. These same principles hold true in promoting careers to the workforce of tomorrow.

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Automotive

Moving Parts, Moving Data, Keeping People

This Plant's labor-saving automation includes hardware for updating CNC offsets to adjust for gradual process changes. When the plant adopted its automated system, management thought carefully about the impact on staffing.

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Cutting The Learning Curve

A grinding shop in western Pennsylvania uses self-teaching CNCs to boost productivity.

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Job Shop Finds Its Niche With The Help Of Tapping Machines

The metalworking job shop market can be illustrated as a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid is the largest segment of the discrete parts manufacturing business.

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Fit The Strategy, Not The Job

This shop faced two big challenges—keeping an important job from going overseas and positioning itself for future growth. Simultaneous five-axis machining helped the shop meet both challenges simultaneously.

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Training, Planning And Doing An Improvement Effort

Marotta Scientific Controls, Inc. (Montville, New Jersey) designs, develops and manufactures valves, fluid control components and systems for commercial aerospace, space, industrial and defense applications.

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Software Helps Niche Manufacturing Job Shop Tackle Complex 3D Machining Jobs

This nine-person firm founded in the early 1950s, has found a niche machining molds and other complex 3D parts for a long list of blue chip clients.

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Is Labor Cost All There Is?

While this magazine addresses a great many topics related to metalworking, one topic these days seems to loom largest of all. Machining work that once might have been performed in an American shop is being sent to countries with lower labor costs, most notably China.

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Vertical Machining Center Helps Job Shop Stay Competitive

This shop has applied this vertical machining center to help with its core business of prototype and small runs.

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Today's Students—Tomorrow's High Quality Workforce

Allow me to share portions of my vision of the future of our country and our industry. This vision includes the critical role that today's students and their dedicated instructors play in making all our businesses profitable and productive in the future.

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