Workforce Development

Manufacturing's Future...Dependant On A Skilled Workforce

The strength of manufacturing’s future is dependent on the ability of all levels of the educational structure to respond to the needs of industry and develop and maintain a skilled workforce. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is dedicated to advancing that process.

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Job Shop Solves 2D Measurement Problem With Single-Axis Height Gage

Job shops are always trying to satisfy customers who are in a hurry. Sometimes these customers provide demanding or faulty specifications and then claim that a job isn't done right.

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The Mañana Personality On The Job

Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! The motto of the French Revolution is the standard of the mañana personality on the job. Today's workers and managers in a similar way play out this leisurely personality style on the job in ever increasing degrees.

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Industry...Education's Proving Ground

Industry. education's proving ground.

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The Anxious Personality On The Job

Ever immediately get negative vibes from people you hardly know? Ever sense that co-workers could be more sociable and more gregarious if they tried just a little bit harder? Ever want to slap them upside the head to alert them to the happiness they are missing should they only let themselves be a little bit more outgoing and become part of the group? Ever give up on them because they appear icy, aloof and detached and, down deep, they really don't want to be included? Ever conclude they are just too much trouble, just too high-maintenance? You've just been hoodwinked, misled and ensnared. You just met the anxious personality on the job.

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Manufacturing Skills Standards

It had been a long day, and John, human resources manager at ZTB Company, had reviewed about 100 applications. Only a handful of them were what he would consider candidates for an interview.

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Job Shop Upgrades CMM With Measuring Software

At the time, this company had a small manual Browne&Sharpe Validator CMM with Micro Measure 3 software. Mr. Myers knew this was not adequate to support the company's needs, especially in a QS9000 certification program.

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Skill Standards Spawn Training

As technology in the metalforming industry becomes more sophisticated, customer expectations more demanding and quality system requirements more exacting, shopfloor employees are required to possess skills and knowledge far surpassing those of past generations. New training processes are necessary to replace old training paradigms.

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The Paranoid Personality On The Job

By the time you read this article, we will have elected a new President and a new Congress. and you're probably feeling a little bit paranoid! All of us throw the word "paranoid" around quite generously without giving much thought to its definition in classic psychotherapy or its contemporary usages in colloquial speech.

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The Histrionic Personality On The Job

All of us have met the person who lives in an exaggerated, overblown emotional world. These are the emotionally flamboyant managers and co-workers who will do anything they can to draw attention to themselves, because without the attention and adulation of others they are nothing—or so they feel.

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