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Employer Prizes Supply Chain Technician with Strong Troubleshooting Skills

As a regional maintenance manager for Dollar Tree’s 25 distribution centers in the continental U.S., Phil Gilkes looks for certain skills on resumes, and then listens during interviews for mention of particular technologies. For example, it piques his interest when supply chain technician applicants respond to his question about their experience with electric motors by […]

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Project Hosts Regional Convenings on the Future of Work

Following on the work of its 2019 face-to-face convening in Winston-Salem, NC, in autumn 2020 the Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work project continued its development of regional partnerships with a virtual convening of representatives from Texas Gulf Coast employers, education institutions, and non-profit workforce development organizations. Principal Investigator Ann-Claire Anderson opened the sessions

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Honda Talent Manager Suggests Educators Add IT Skills & Data Analysis to Industrial Maintenance Programs

Scot McLemore, manager of Talent Acquisition and Deployment at American Honda Motor Company, Inc., places technology trends in two categories: 1) technological advances specific to the products being manufactured and 2) Industry 4.0, particularly the internet of things (IoT). To prepare technicians for advancements in both categories, he suggests educators integrate information technology (IT) basics

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Instructional Cards Provide Roadmap to 43 Cross-Disciplinary Skills

Instructional cards on 43 crosscutting knowledge and skills—that experts advising the Preparing Technicians for the Future of Work project consider essential for STEM technicians to learn in the next decade—are almost ready for prime time. With guidance from industry representatives and community college educators, project leaders identified these three broad skill areas as cross-disciplinary and

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The Digital Transformation of Industries

O-Rings and Educators “Tasks cannot be substituted by automation; they are generally complemented by it,” Gul said, pointing out that few current jobs do not involve computers in some way, but rarely do computers operate without human interaction. He used the Challenger explosion, which was caused by the failure of a booster rocket O-ring that

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