Machining.Blog® is a weekly blog focused on manufacturing career development. It features blog articles on the fundamentals of manufacturing for aspiring machinists. Our goal is to create an interest in manufacturing in the USA. Our writer Matthew Schowalter has worked in manufacturing for 24 years, and he covers the topics that matter to someone starting their career in manufacturing.
“The soft skills the machinist uses are the unseen tools in their box and can directly impact the success or failure of a dreamed after machining career.”
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.
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.
Cardinal Manufacturing in Strum Wisconsin is a school-based manufacturing program that operates both as a class and a business as well. The students gain real world life experiences while enrolled in the program. These experiences include problem solving and working in professional roles.
Manufacturing, a place where metal and fluid work together in a delicately engineered dance to change inputs into a newly combined output. There is music in the moving parts, harmony in the ingenuity of human creativity. The machining of parts is a symphony drawn from human imagination which begins in a concept and completes as a usable tool for ever more creative machine design. This world, in the factory, is a place of hot and cold, a place of tension and release, a place of raw and refined. However, there is more to this secret world than meets the non-discerning eye.
