The Manufacturing Skills Gap – A Look at the Hard Data
By now most of us have heard of or experienced the effects of the Manufacturing Skills Gap. There has been plenty of debate on whether it is a skills gap, a skills mismatch, a wage gap, or whether the whole concept is a socio-political fabrication. We, at Scientific Management… Read More
Manufacturing Skills Gap Doesn’t Exist? It does, and here’s how.
A recent study co-authored by a University of Illinois and MIT economist claims that the skills gap in manufacturing is essentially overblown. We couldn’t disagree more, and we have the hard data to back it up. Any type of workforce skills gap is often the result of many forces… Read More
A Manufacturing Dilemma – Who Needs What Training?
Our manufacturing clients are often faced with the dilemma of knowing that their workforce needs training but not knowing who needs what training. Delivering the same training to everyone is both expensive and inefficient; negatively impacting the ROI of most organizations’ limited training funds. Before we apply… Read More
Finding Hidden Talent in your Manufacturing Workforce
One of the keys to develop a successful manufacturing workforce is the ability to identify and nourish existing talent. This is especially true as the skilled labor supply continues to dwindle, and demand continues to increase. This skills gap threatens the bottom line profitability of manufacturers everywhere. Large Fortune… Read More
Solving a Crisis: Closing the Manufacturing Skills Gap
The Manufacturing Skills Crisis: There is a lot of benefit derived from raising awareness of the problem. Unfortunately, as the data indicates, that problem is only going to get worse and reversing decades of negative information and influence over manufacturing is not going to change quickly. Here are some grim… Read More