Articles Tagged with ''skills gap''

Lee will lead the Institute’s focus on programming to address workforce development, skills certification and veteran training and hiring.

A new article from the MSSC explains the importance of skills standards.

It isn’t exactly news—manufacturing production lines are heading back to the States en masse, but there aren’t enough trained techs ready to staff them. Baby Boomers—our proverbial Old Guard—are retiring, leaving unfilled jobs for the unskilled—and some say uninterested—masses.

Industrial manufacturing forecasts are optimistic according to PwC’s Q3 2013 Manufacturing Barometer, which surveys U.S. based executives in large multinational industrial businesses. Industries are hiring in a myriad of quality sectors including aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, green manufacturing and technology.

Quality examines just how pervasive this trend is, and what some manufacturers are doing to combat it.