Items Tagged with 'skills gap'

The Manufacturing Institute’s Heroes MAKE America initiative showcased Johnson & Johnson at its “Military to Manufacturing” Career Fair at Fort Bragg.

The demand for skilled workers is rising, but traditional hiring and training methods are not appealing to early-career professionals. For Gen Z, job satisfaction involves more than just pay; they value growth, purpose, and access to advanced technology. In response, manufacturers and industry organizations are changing their hiring and training practices.

RoboDK has launched RoboDK Academy: a free, self-paced online training platform designed to make industrial robot programming skills more accessible than ever.

Dematic, a global leader in supply chain automation, honored he recipients of its 2025 Dematic FIRST Scholarship program.

Here are four factors that I believe we as an industry need to study closely, honestly evaluate our contributions to, and commit to working towards today.

The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship & Learning (METAL) program, led by IACMI – The Composites Institute® with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program, announced a new partnership with the Pittsburgh-based Patterns of Meaning Initiative, an innovative program that introduces steel, specialty materials and metal manufacturing to K-12 students through the arts.

BLM Group USA welcomed local robotics team Frog Force 503 from Novi High School for a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at the cutting-edge tube and sheet laser technology that is driving the metal fabrication industry.

Quality speaks with Eddie Pompa, a legend in the NDT industry. He's an NDT advocate and educator and mentor to many in the field.

Quality sat down with the team from Sierra College−Amy Schulz, executive dean for Workforce and Strategic Initiatives, and Roy Ingram, department chair for Electronics, Automation, Robotics, and Industrial Systems, on a topic dear to the heart of the quality industry- the workforce, automation, and training.

Student engineers from the University of Bath have been crowned world champions in a contest to design, build and fly their own drone.