Category: Workforce Development

July 8, 2020

In response to the industry’s hunger for information on technology that can pull them out of the post-pandemic productivity lull, automation equipment supplier EU Automation, has pooled all its resources into a new, free, online Knowledge Hub. At the click […]

June 8, 2020

FRANKFURT — Volkswagen Group named Ralf Brandstaetter as VW brand CEO, promoting him from his current role as the brand’s COO. The change — effective July 1 — means that VW Group CEO Herbert Diess gives up his role as […]

April 20, 2020

In its most recent report, Accenture stresses that “no industry is immune and the industrial equipment is no exception.” “Industrial equipment companies are grappling with the immediate impact of COVID-19 as both their manufacturing and supply chain operations are being […]

April 9, 2020

At some point, the biggest American companies are going to tell their employees it’s time to leave home and return to work. That decision will be fraught with risk without widespread testing for the COVID-19 virus. For some industries, such […]

April 3, 2020

The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday released its monthly jobs report, revealing that manufacturing lost 18,000 jobs in March, while the overall economy shed 701,000 jobs. Here’s the problem. These numbers only hint at the losses that have actually […]

March 18, 2020

Surveying over 700,000 employees worldwide, 52,240 of those were from the manufacturing and industrial engineering sector. The survey highlighted that 53% of those within the industry have no home working experience. As the Coronavirus maintains its pandemic status by the […]

March 11, 2020

The manufacturing industry is on the cusp of a new digital-first era. Technology is changing everything from design to production. It’s no surprise then, that digital transformation has become top of the agenda for those working in the sector; and […]

November 26, 2019

Experience is always the best teacher. So GE Appliances, a Haier company, is providing exactly that to students who are in the manufacturing pathway program at Doss High School in Louisville. The students in the program have expressed an interest […]

October 29, 2019

While it’s common knowledge that manufacturing has a culture problem, what might not be known is how deep a problem this is. In a study by Grant Thornton, “Return on Culture: Proving the Connection Between Work and Profit,” manufacturing executives […]

October 17, 2019

In the 1936 satire Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin stars as a hapless factory worker tightening bolt after bolt after bolt of a large industrial machine until he is eventually pulled into—and run through—its gears.Bottom of Form However silly, Chaplin’s film […]