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Training the Manufacturing Workforce: Don't Go It Alone With a skilled production workforce in short supply, manufacturers are stepping up, stepping in and collaborating with training partners to develop curricula that meet their recruiting needs.   |
IndustryWeek
February 16, 2011 |
Fighting the War for Talent Manufacturers faced with engineering and skilled-labor shortages are taking matters into their own hands. |
Food Processing
October 2010
Gerald Shankel |
America's Most Wanted: Skilled Workers A highly skilled and trained workforce is necessary to meet 21st century manufacturing needs. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation Conference Report Best practices in food safety, asset utilization and sustainability were front and center at this year's industry idea-exchange. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2006
Kevin T. Higgins |
Will you integrate me? Systems integrators are waiting for food and beverage manufacturers to make a proposal: let's become automation partners and stop being strangers in the night. |
Food Engineering
October 1, 2005
Kevin T. Higgins |
State of Food Manufacturing: Period of Polarization Emerges The middle ground is shrinking as processors gravitate to one extreme or another in their approach to food and beverage manufacturing. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
Outsourcing Engineering Refining Priorities for New Age Engineers The balancing act that engineering teams must master is outsourcing nonessential jobs while retaining the personnel and talent necessary for innovation. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Manufacturing Is Not For the Faint at Heart -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Comments When asked to comment on the state of the industry, manufacturing managers throughout the United States share a common concern that the odds seem to be stacked against them. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Managing Expectations -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Comments Given the chance to weigh in on the state of the industry, their companies and their employees, manufacturing managers reveal what you always suspected: Things are tough out there, and they're likely to only get tougher. |
Job Journal
August 8, 2004
Rich Heintz |
Biotech's Winning Formula for Steady Job Growth Deep pockets are creating expanding opportunities and biotechnology is helping to put America back to work. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Wanted: Talent-Driven Innovation Can the United States meet the challenge of creating the skilled workforce needed for manufacturing leadership? |
Job Journal
January 25, 2009 |
Career Snapshot: Industrial Mechanic At a time when companies are cutting new-equipment purchases, those with skills to extend the life of existing machinery are essential to the bottom line. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2007
Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation & Manufacturing 2007 Conference and Expo Challenges abound for food and beverage processors, but creative solutions were the order of the day at this annual conference. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Balancing Your Automation Standards Best practices in technology deployment and human relations distinguish food manufacturing's masters of automation. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Integration Projects Require a Disciplined Approach While manufacturers are getting more out of their integration projects, overall costs are not necessarily coming down. To realize future economies, upfront investments are a must. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2007
Wayne Labs |
Implementing Best Practices Applying a best practices strategy in parallel with an automation strategy can enhance your competitive edge. But one size doesn't fit all. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2005
Kevin T. Higgins |
Food Automation & Manufacturing 2005 Conference and Expo: Information Abundance Shifting markets are impacting production demands in food processing, says keynote speaker at Food Automation & Manufacturing 2005 Conference and Expo. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Root Cause Analysis in the Video Age Condition monitoring has eluded food and beverage manufacturing for the most part, but the video component of that technology is carving out a troubleshooting niche. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2006 |
Labor Days: Meeting Our Workforce Challenges! This special report takes the critical challenges facing U.S. manufacturers, puts them in perspective and presents the best workforce practices of America's plants. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Manufacturing's Biggest Challenges -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Responses If you come to work everyday worrying about global competition, finding and keeping skilled labor, raw material shortages, and the quality of your product, you're not alone. |
Food Processing
February 2008
Lloyd Snyder |
How to launch a new manufacturing line Consulting engineers can be great allies in expanding or changing your process, but only you can impress on them the unique needs of your company and your plant. |
IndustryWeek
March 17, 2010
Jill Jusko |
The Training Imperative U.S. manufacturers continue their struggle to find the right people with the right skills to fill manufacturing's talent needs. A broad array of institutions, including manufacturers themselves, are racing to meet that skills challenge - and keep U.S. manufacturing competitive. |
Job Journal
March 18, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Mechanical Engineer Mechanical engineers have a blueprint for durable careers. |
Job Journal
May 13, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Civil & Structural Engineers California's crumbling infrastructure adds to a growing demand for civil and structural engineers. |
Food Engineering
June 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Tech Update: Post-Production Solutions The integrated-plant concept works great, up until the finished product is filled. Machines may do the repetitive tasks, but coordinated activity remains elusive. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2005
Jim Getchell |
Engineering Brain Drain? New Strategies for Coping Does the food industry still have the engineering competencies to deliver innovation and great bottom line results? It's business challenges are as intense as ever, and the winners will be the ones who can uncover the keys to successfully converting the opportunities to real business results. |
Food Processing
September 2007
Mike Pehanich |
The changing fortunes of food manufacturing The food industry may not be ready for lights-out automation, but some next-generation manufacturing models are taking hold. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
David Blanchard |
IndustryWeek's 2009 Salary Survey Comments on Manufacturing at the Crossroads One thing all manufacturing managers seem to agree on is that things are tough out there, and getting tougher. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008
John Blanchard |
Packaging Automation as a Centerpiece for Sustainability Packaging is one of the most important facets in new product innovations, increasing speed-to-market and achieving sustainability goals. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Medicine for a Manufacturing Turnaround Ohio school partners with local healthcare products manufacturers to develop a bioscience program aimed at revitalizing the area's industrial base. |
Food Processing
September 2005
Pehanich & Fusaro |
The 21st century food manufacturing organization Five years into the new millennium, a handful of manufacturing visionaries assesses the current state of American food processing and whether it's prepared for the future. |
CRM
May 2014
Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
The Business Case for Better Maintenance It seems a stretch, but a plant's maintenance department can be a profit center. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
How Much Are You Worth? IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey A 2007 Salary Survey reveals that the average salary for manufacturing management is $106,588. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2006
Wayne Labs |
Machine Control: Still Islands of Automation? According to some manufacturing industry experts, food producers need to play catch up with their machines. |
Food Engineering
April 2, 2007 |
Redefining Process Control The new, connected world of supply chains is redefining the way food processors do business, and it's also redefining the expectations of process control systems to meet new business demands. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
John Blau |
Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers Even loosening immigration won't fill the gap, say experts |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
The State of Food Manufacturing From recall readiness to raw material and energy costs, Food Engineering readers weigh in on issues affecting workers and the workplace for food manufacturing. |
Food Processing
January 2005
Mike Pehanich |
Where has the engineering talent gone? A decade of downsizing -- and outsourcing -- has sent former food industry innovators to engineering firms -- where anybody can hire them. In the meantime, small entrepreneurial firms have been filling in the design and fabrication gaps for food processing companies. |
Food Engineering
April 2, 2007
Wayne Labs |
Savvy Maintenance Strategies For food processors, a savvy plant maintenance strategy begins with hard questions based in reality. What does it cost when a part fails in your production line? How critical is it to your business? |
IndustryWeek
June 23, 2010 |
Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine. |
Food Processing
January 2006
David Feder |
Annual Manufacturing Survey: Safe and Secure Once again, food safety is manufacturers' No. 1 concern -- but security continues to be an important factor in plant operations. |
Prepared Foods
October 1, 2005
Edward J. Goldman |
Developing True Product Innovations Coming up with innovative food products affects all aspects of a business, and a new product initiative may need outside help to be successful. An expert affiliated with a product and equipment design firm offers some useful tips. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
Neal Starkman |
Problem Solvers US students continue to lag behind the rest of the world in the four core STEM subjects. The answer, many believe, is a practical approach to instruction: project-based. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Manufacturing in the Classroom New programs are popping up to help plug the skills gap. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2007
Adrienne Selko |
The Changing Faces Of The Workplace Attracting and keeping women in industry will be key to manufacturing's long-term viability. |
Food Processing
February 2013 |
MRO Q&A: Mechanic Forums For Discussing Food Plant Challenges Are there any organizations in the food industry that have forums for mechanics to get together and discuss food plant challenges? |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Profiting From Proactive Maintenance In addition to safeguarding production schedules, proactive maintenance adds new efficiencies and revenue potential, too. |
Food Processing
October 2010 |
MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Maintenance Seers Predictive maintenance tools and strategies diagnose problems before they begin. |
