Precision Plus, Inc. is featured in the latest issue of Wisconsin STEM Pathways Magazine. The article, entitled Companies in the Classroom–Putting the Classroom in the Workplace, chronicles the company’s two year journey from a concept to the reality of having an internship and a apprenticeship program for high school and college students, as well as…
Upside- down degrees can provide an excellent means of integrating the skills needed by employees at todays advanced manufacturing SMEs- technical, practical, and managerial/academic.
Developing Skilled Workers is a top priority today, This Toolkit provides you with a proven path to do just that!
What works to help us qualify and put to work long term unemployed in middle skill jobs? How do we build the ROI case for this? How do we scale it nationwide?
We have broad bi-partisan agreement as to what the problem is. And everyone we spoke with genuinely wanted to fix it.
We need to change the community perception that manufacturing is “not deserving/worthy enough” for their kids. This is North American Manufacturing’s Sputnik Moment.
You can see the aging of society every day – at work, shopping, and even in our schools. What are you doing to meet the demands that this megatrend is creating for your precision machining business?
Raising wages alone does not create great machinists. Aptitude, attitude, talent, training, and experience do.
These do not arrive by merely raising wages. Higher wages are a reflection of these in an employee.
Seems like Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand hasn’t been delivering the Sskilled workforce U.S. Advanced Manufacturers need. SHould we be doing this our selves, or is there a Public, or Public-Private Partnership role?
The Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) has partnered with The Manufacturing Institute to expand Right Skills Now, a fast-track machining training program aligned to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)-Endorsed Manufacturing Skills Certification System.
“we spend too much time teaching our employees to ‘use the tools of the trade’ rather than ‘the tool five inches between the ears-‘ the ultimate tool we’re born with and have forgotten how to use.”