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Explore and Learn About a Manufacturing Engineering Career Path

Do You Have the Important Qualities for a Career as a Manufacturing Engineer?

  • Do you have critical-thinking and problem-solving skills?

  • Do you excel at math?

  • Do you have excellent communication skills?

If so, consider a career as a Manufacturing Engineer

What Skills Should a Manufacturing Engineer Have?

  • Mathematical Skills -Use trigonometry functions and calculus for troubleshooting and analysis

  • Communication Skills - Write documents and explain issues clearly. Must fully understand ideas while listening and working in a team

  • Mechanical / Technical Skills - Must be able understand how manufacturing devices operate and understand the optimization of computer networks for manufacturing processes

The manufacturing engineers job is to focus on the automated aspects involved in the manufacturing process. They design and optimize manufacturing systems and are also involved with process flow and other aspects of production.

Explore and Learn About a Machining Career Path

Do You Have the Important Qualities for a Career in Machining?

  • Do you have a mechanical skillset?

  • Are you a technical person?

  • Do you excel at math?

If so, consider a career as a Machinist or Tool and Die Maker

What Skills Should a Machinist Have?

  • Mathematical Skills - Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and compute basic trigonometry functions while choosing the right methods to solve the problem

  • Reasoning Ability - Ability to use common sense understanding and solve problems

  • Oral Comprehension - Ability to listen and understand information spoken

  • Computer Literacy - Ability to use a computer and work with Microsoft Office programs

  • Mechanical / Technical Skills - Must operate lathes, mills, grinders and other computer controlled machines

Machinists make components and parts on computer controlled manufacturing equipment such as a CNC lathe or a CNC mill.

Tool and die makers make tool, die and mold components and other industrial tools on manual and CNC equipment. They also fit the components together and align and assemble the industrial tools.

How Manufacturers and Schools Can Work Together

With the shortage of manufacturing workers in the United States we must start to investigate the situation closer to fill the jobs of today and tomorrow. Besides the worker compensation, benefits, work environment, and career development topics that may influence career decisions in manufacturing, we should now look closer into the following topics.

Implementing a Cobot in a School Program

Tiger Manufacturing is a school based business in Webster High School in Webster Wisconsin. It is a business run inside the schools technical education program. The program is run by the teacher Roy Ward. I asked Roy a few questions about the program and the implementation of the cobot on the CNC lathe.