Vision 2025 tackles the future of workforce preparedness

Some of the major challenges include:

• Community colleges and technical schools need to provide adequate training for a more versatile maintenance and operations skill set.
• The best ways to foster workforce engagement to improve uptime reliability.
• Balancing the increasing use of robotics to offset labor shortages.
• Lack of availability of skilled talent at all levels, especially where automation is involved.
• Resistance to change among workforce.
• Uncertainty regarding skill requirements for the future.
• Dedicating training time – taking people off the production floor to train.
• Finding, and affording, high-quality labor.

Solutions being considered or implemented:

• Substantially upgrading technical training.
• Connecting with teachers/professors in local community colleges to make them aware of our needs and help us connect with their students.
• Actively participating in and sponsoring First Robotics program and other events involving students to recruit them as interns.
• Inviting students to let them see what a career in manufacturing could be like for them.
• Partnering with charter schools and other educational institutions to feed internship programs.
• Looking at the traditional European model of apprenticeships as a model.
• Expanding mentorship program.
• Making training videos in-house (YouTube) where seasoned veterans demonstrate proper techniques, procedures, etc. in production operations.
• Documenting the ROI of technical training more effectively to show that it clearly works.
• Using OEM produced videos to help operators with training and troubleshooting of equipment.

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