workforce development

Successful Succession

Two phone calls—in the same week—from readers of this column rang my "it's-time-to-write-a-succession-planning-article" bell.

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Another Dirty Job

Mike Rowe, blue collar spokesman.

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Do-It-Yourself Training

Training and recruitment of good manufacturing people is like the weather, in that everyone talks about it. But unlike our ability to influence the weather, there are things a shop can do about training and recruitment. This story describes one shop's innovative and successful approach to this vexing problem.

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Surviving the Downturn

Don’t ignore safety and training initiatives.

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Powder Coating

500-HR SALT-SPRAY REQUIREMENT

We have been experiencing some coating failures lately and we are trying to figure out how to find the root cause and what tests we can use to prevent them. We need to pass a 500-hr salt-spray requirement, and we cannot always meet the specification.

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management

Training Classes

Do you teach any paint or industrial coating classes? If not, do you happen to know where I could find one?

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education

Process- Focused

Training, industry certification boost aerospace plater

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Who Has the Best Job in the World?

New appreciation for the coolest part of a finisher’s job

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Learning "On The Job"

If you had to take a guess as to the source of my adhesion problems, would you say it is because of my pretreatment methods?

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Response to Training Question

In regard to the question from C.L. in the August Clinic as to train or not to train, it sounds like C.L. is new on the job and was handed a problem area.

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