Workforce Development

Workforce Development 1 Oct 2003

The Value of Skills Standards

Members of the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA), who provide manufacturing solutions through the applications, sales, training and service of machine tools, are keenly familiar with the challenges confronting their customers, U. S.

Workforce Development 15 Sep 2003

Training By The Numbers

A formal training program not only helped ease this firm’s transition from cam automatics to CNC lathes, but it also enabled the firm to staff a third shift in record time.

Workforce Development 1 Aug 2003

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.

Inspection and Measurement 15 Jul 2003

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.

Grinding 15 Jul 2003

Cutting The Learning Curve

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

Holemaking 15 Jul 2003

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.

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.