Workforce Development

Workforce Development 15 Jun 2003

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.

Workforce Development 1 Mar 2003

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.

Workforce Development 15 Feb 2003

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.

Workforce Development 5 Feb 2003

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.

Vertical Machining Centers 15 Jan 2003

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.

Workforce Development 1 Nov 2002

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.

Workforce Development 15 Sep 2002

Skilled Labor Shortage Solved With Technology

The problem facing this casting shop is that the artisans who create patterns used to model and create cast-iron parts aren't available in the numbers that they once were, and as skilled workers retire, there aren't enough replacements to staff the industry. Foundries across the country face this problem as the skilled labor pool diminishes through attrition. The remaining patternmakers are working longer hours trying to keep up, causing longer lead times.