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Big Bend Technical College Partners with LIFT’s Operation Next Program

Provides Transitioning Soldiers, Military Spouses and Veterans Opportunities for Careers in Advanced Manufacturing

May 10, 2024

Operation Next provides an accelerated-hybrid program that combines online education with hands-on training to earn credentials for in-demand careers in advanced manufacturing. BBTC’s rolling start program will train students in Computer Numeric Control (CNC) and Welding. Each year 200,000 service members transition out of the military across the nation, and it is estimated that nearly 2 million advanced manufacturing workers will be needed to fill vacant positions in the U.S. by 2028.

Workforce Development in 2023

MPT Expo “Ask the Expert” stage examines trends, topics, and future considerations

December 11, 2023

Matthew Jaster

At the Motion + Power Technology Expo in Detroit, I had the privilege to sit and discuss workforce development challenges with Kris Ward, senior director, strategy, and business development at SME, Kika Young, president, Forest City Gear, Mary Ellen Doran, director, emerging technology and executive director for the AGMA Foundation and Megan Schrauben, executive director, MiSTEM Network. The following is an edited transcript of this panel discussion. (Special thanks to Forest City Gear for sponsoring this live event.)

The Do-It-Yourself Mentality

June 1, 2019

Michael Goldstein

Finding capable, dependable machinists is one of the great challenges of modern manufacturing. Most gear manufacturers we talk to would hire more machine operators - if only they could find them. They lament the fact that their workforce is getting older and grayer, and they don't know what to do.

Erosion of Knowledge

March 1, 2015

Michael Goldstein

Have you ever stood on a beach at the edge of the water and felt the grains of sand dissolve from under your feet as the water recedes? No matter how hard you plant your feet or grip your toes, you can’t hold on to the sand. It just flows away right from under you. In many ways that sand is like the knowledge and experience of our graying manufacturing workforce. It seems inevitable that much of that knowledge is being washed away.

Coming Home, but to What

May 1, 2014

Jack McGuinn

Many vets have the skills, but no place to apply them.

The Halls of Ivy Tech Are Humming with Precision Tooling

October 1, 2013

If you've been following this space with any regularity, you know that grassroots efforts among industry and academia are springing up around the country to help win the hearts, minds and talents of young people in nudging them towards a career in manufacturing. Add another partnership to the list.

Where Did All the Displaced Manufacturing Workers Go

August 1, 2013

Following is a report from The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI). Founded in 1933, the alliance contributes to the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing by providing economic research, professional development, and an independent, expert source of manufacturing information.

High Tech Manufacturing--Challenges for the 1990s

March 1, 1988

Michael Goldstein

This issue's editorial is a reprint of the keynote address given by Michael Goldstein at the Computer Aided Gear Design Seminar held at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA on November 9, 1987.

Long on High Technology -- Short on High Technologists

September 1, 1986

At the present time, technology seems to be moving faster than our ability to educate people in its utilization. this is particularly true of the manufacturing engineering profession.