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Leadership Skills Also Characterize A Champion

WSC The WorldSkills Competition is a biennial event in which students compete with their international peers in occupational trades. This year, the team from the United States entered in both the CNC turning and CNC milling categories. Includes VIDEO.

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Engineering Employees

Christine Breen and Dave Runge Today, the lack of skilled manufacturing employees is the major problem holding this company back. To clear the way for growth tomorrow, the company is determined to solve this problem. The answer is an internal university for developing the skills of every current employee and new hire, including many who have never set foot in a machine shop before.

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Speaking of Precision
10/19/2009 Production Machining: The Precision Machined Products Association has created a blog to facilitate the transfer of important knowledge that will help keep precision machining competitive, sustainable and profitable.
Training Process Constraints: Money, Time, Culture
9/25/2009 Modern Machine Shop: Training, like any other manufacturing process, has to be seen as something that can be continuously improved.
Leadership Skills Also Characterize A Champion
9/17/2009 Modern Machine Shop: The WorldSkills Competition is a biennial event in which students compete with their international peers in occupational trades. This year, the team from the United States entered in both the CNC turning and CNC milling categories. Includes VIDEO.
When Trained Personnel Fail To Retain
9/4/2009 Modern Machine Shop: The failure to retain what has been taught isn’t an aptitude problem, but an accountability problem.
Certifying Experienced Employees
9/4/2009 Modern Machine Shop: When implementing a new training program, how do you certify experienced employees without wounding their pride?...

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Training & Personnel

Training is one of the most difficult and important activities in any machining facility. In some parts of the country, as the number of skilled machinists dwindles, shops are increasingly facing the challenge of developed skilled employees themselves by training these employees internally.