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Uruguay Prison Turns Inmates Into Entrepreneurs
Rolando Bustamante watches his employees turn out one concrete block after another, occasionally checking an electronic tablet that records orders from clients and that lets him communicate with suppliers.
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How Safety Can Increase Adoption of New Technologies
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Hunter Industrial Partners With Bogi’s Girl Gang Garage to Support Women in the Industry
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A Manufacturer’s Secret Weapon: Using Education to Engineer Influence
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How One Manufacturer Solved its Skilled Labor Shortage by Starting a Training School
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Würth Announces Partnership With The Fastener Training Institute
Würth Industry North America announced its exclusive partnership with The Fastener Training Institute as the 2019 'Sustaining Sponsor' of FTI.
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IPC to Offer Schleuniger’s Wire Processing Expertise Through Online Training Courses
Global electronics industry association IPC has partnered with the Swiss-based technology group Schleuniger to offer IPC members online wire processing training from Schleuniger’s S.University.
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Robotics Challenge Sparks Students' Passion for STEM Careers
More than 15,000 students from about 40 countries brought robots they've spent months building and fine-tuning to Louisville recently for a world championship designed to spark their interest in pursuing careers in fields such as engineering and technology.
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Girls Outscore Boys on Tech, Engineering, Even Without Class
Though less likely to study in a formal technology or engineering course, America's girls are showing more mastery of those subjects than their boy classmates, according to newly released national education data.
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Utility’s Marion Plant Receives Citizen of the Year Award
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company announced that employees of Utility’s Marion manufacturing plant have received the Citizen of the Year Award.
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How One Manufacturer Solved Their Skilled Labor Shortage By Starting A Training School
Companies across the nation are missing out on potential revenue because they can’t find enough employees to keep up with increasing demand.
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Zebra Technologies Named to Forbes’ Best Employer List for Fourth Consecutive Year
Zebra Technologies Corporation announced it has been named to Forbes’ list of “America’s Best Employers,” for the fourth consecutive year.
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Up to $400,000 Available in Brookwood-Sago Grants for Mine Safety Education and Training
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced the availability of up to $400,000 in funding through its Brookwood-Sago grant program to support education and training to help identify, avoid, and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around the nation's mines.
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U.S. Department of Labor Gives Funding to Assist Veterans and Transitioning Servicemembers Attain Occupational Licenses
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced the availability of up to $2.5 million for cooperative agreements with partnerships that will work to increase and expedite the attainment of state occupational licenses by veterans and transitioning servicemembers.
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Lincoln Electric’s NC3 Partnership Poised to Raise Welding Education Standards
Lincoln Electric is embarking on a multi-faceted plan to raise welding education standards across the nation and beyond through a newly approved partnership with the National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3).
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Is Workplace Discrimination Just a Cliché in the Manufacturing Industry?
The labor force has an almost equal composition of men and women. However, among the manufacturing workforce, only 27 percent of the industry consists of women. Why is this?
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Coperion K-Tron Salina Awarded ISO 9001:2015 Quality Certification
Coperion K-Tron Salina successfully satisfied the certification requirements to receive certification for ISO 9001:2015, by ABS Evaluations, Inc.
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Eaton Hosts Students for Women in Cybersecurity Conference
Power management company Eaton welcomed Rochester Institute of Technology students attending the Women in CyberSecurity conference at its Experience Center near Pittsburgh.
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Building a Gender Equal Engineering Sector
In support of International Women’s Day, Sulzer has announced it will champion the Empowering Women in Industry association by serving as the official social media sponsor for its 2019 Conference and Gala, taking place on Sept. 26 in Chicago, Illinois.
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3 Steps to Create Innovative Disaster Response Solutions
The frequency and intensity of disasters are increasing. Through it all, critical operations need to be up and running for our communities, companies, survivors, and families.
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'Alexa, Where’s My Job?'
“Alexa, Where’s My Job?” This is the question many executives in the supply-chain arena—in fact, a great deal of all people involved in the supply chain—are asking themselves today.
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How to Build a Strong Talent Pipeline in Manufacturing
It’s important companies look beyond immediate staffing needs to thrive in the long term, but that’s easier said than done when they are lacking skilled laborers to meet business needs today.
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How to Offer Flexibility to Your Manufacturing Employees
Find out how your manufacturing company can provide flexible working opportunities that help attract and retain talent, while also boosting productivity.
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Lincoln Electric Names New Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. announced that Geoffrey P. Allman will serve as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, effective immediately.
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Why Diversity Isn’t a Recruitment 'Strategy'
A diverse workplace creates a culture where employees of different religious and political beliefs, education, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientation, geographies and skills are able to bring their authentic self to the workplace, and do their best work.
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Dept. of Labor and Florida Department of Military Affairs Partner to Train At-Risk Youth With Job Corps Demonstration Project
The U.S. Department of Labor and the Florida Department of Military Affairs announced a new Job Corps demonstration project to serve at-risk youth with job skills instruction through an expansion of the Florida National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program.
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Acco Welcomes York Tech to Neighboring Manufacturing Facility
Acco Material Handling Solutions LLC welcomed a delegation of students from nearby York County School of Technology to its York, PA headquarters.
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Survey Finds Most Employees Want to Learn on the Job by Video, in Five Minutes or Less
The second edition of “Voice of the E-Learner” survey asked 1,327 workers from manufacturers and distributors in the electrical, plumbing, HVAC and industrial tools industries about their perceptions of online learning.
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Companies Transform Cultures as They Compete for Staffers
As business owners struggle to fill job openings, they're using their company culture to attract talented candidates.
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Wipro Launches Automotive Innovation Center in Detroit
Wipro Limited, a global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, announced the launch of an Automotive Innovation Center in Detroit, MI.
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How Women Can Make Their Mark in Manufacturing
Women have a tough time breaking into the manufacturing industry. Despite making up nearly half of the U.S. labor force in 2016, women accounted for just 29 percent of manufacturing workers.
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18 Public High School Skilled Trades Teachers Win $1M for Harbor Freight Tools for Schools
Three public high school skilled trades teachers are the first-place winners of the 2018 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence.
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Klein Tools Celebrates Apprentices During National Apprenticeship Week
Millennials believe employers need to continue to attract younger workers by showing how skilled trade jobs make a difference in people’s everyday life.
