Workforce Development
Manufacturing Day Producers Announce Edge Factor as Strategic Content Partner
Edge Factor offers online kit to promote event.
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Put Employees’ Skills on Display
A shop interested in cross training publicly scores its employees according to how much time they spend with different types of equipment.
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Turning Center’s Dual Drive Train Speeds Tool Transitions
The Traub TNL32-11 sliding/fixed headstock automatic lathe has a headstock movable in the Z axis, an upper and identical lower turret with X, Y and Z axes, and a counter spindle movable in the X and Z directions.
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Launching an Apprenticeship Program for $130
This shop uses an inexpensive plug-in for a website-hosting platform to manage its custom, in-house apprenticeship program.
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EDM’s HMI Makes Job Management Flexible
GF Machining Solutions offers the AgiesCharmilles Cut E 350, incorporating a range of technologies designed to increase flexibility and accelerate time to market for medical manufacturing.
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Student Video Contest Promotes Manufacturing Education
Teams of students recently visited local manufacturers not just to educate themselves, but to produce educational videos for their peers, parents and students.
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Video: Update on Cardinal Manufacturing
State legislators produced this video promoting the Wisconsin high school shop program run as a for-profit business. See the shop for yourself at an open house May 18.
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Portable CNC Simulator Enables Milling, Turning Training
FANUC America offers its CNC simulator for educational use, providing learners with exposure to a FANUC control without the need for a machine tool.
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Machining Is Its Own Outreach, Says Young Engineer
Modern CNC machining technology is so distinct from other manufacturing operations that it will attract and draw in the people best able to fill the machining-related positions of the future.
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CNN Reports on Students Who Are “Paid to Go to College”
“This is so much more than a ticket through college—this is your life,” says a student quoted in the news network’s report on CNC machining apprenticeships.
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