Workforce Development
Software Keeps Jobs On Track
Two employees of this aerospace shop began gathering information on shop management software systems. Their year-long search culminated in a visit to the 1998 IMTS tradeshow, where they found this software solution.
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Overriding The Skills Shortage
With experienced operators in short supply, this shop developed a software solution to compensate.
Read MoreJob Sites, Machine Tool-Style
Job Sites, Machine Tool-Style During the Internet Revolution, have you utilized the Web to help with your employment needs? Chances are, you have. Sites such as Monster.
Read MoreReplacing That Key Employee
Inevitably, it happens to every company. Some key member of the organization leaves for greener pastures, and the company has to scramble to replace that person.
Read MoreHow A One-Man Job Shop Grows
Last month a manufacturer's representative in Northern California, Mark Drazba, contacted me about a column idea. Mark and other machine tool and accessory salesmen are in a unique position.
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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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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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