By leveraging our industry knowledge and relationships with leading manufacturing, education, and workforce experts and organizations, we are able to develop a variety of resources covering industry challenges, best practices, and strategies for what's new and what's next.
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Case Studies
Apprenticeships Bridge Education & Industry
Throughout the U.S., manufacturers are struggling to find employees with the appropriate competencies to effectively fill skilled positions.
Case Studies
Improve Retention with Apprenticeships
Founded in 1916, Dixon Valve & Coupling Co. LLC is a family-owned company that has grown to become a leading global innovator in the hose coupling industry.
Case Studies
Is Manufacturing Ready for XR?
Consider how cell phones and the Internet redefined communication, education and entertainment, not to mention manufacturing.
Case Studies
Training to Meet External Demands
Rosenboom of Sheldon, Iowa, built a thriving business delivering hydraulic cylinders engineered for specific applications and custom solutions.
Case Studies
Goodwill's Vocational Training
Goodwill Industries International Inc. is known for its retail thrift stores, which raise billions of dollars by selling donated clothes and household items.
Case Studies
Training Battery Assemblers
Pull up to Detroit Diesel Corp. (DDC), re-branded a decade ago simply as “Detroit” when its product line expanded beyond engines to include trans-missions and axles.
Case Studies
The Need to Step Up Cybersecurity
As hackers become more sophisticated and dangerous, manufacturers need to step up their cybersecurity efforts.
Webinars
Total Productive Maintenance: Driving to Zero Stoppages
Learn about Total Productive Maintenance and improving the integrity of production and quality of systems.
Blog Posts
Simple, Effective eLearning Manufacturing Onboarding Checklist
6 steps to a simple and effective onboarding program using online classes.
Case Studies
Build a Pre-Apprenticeship Program
This small, Georgia-based custom precision machine shop provides parts to the aerospace industry per customer specifications.
Blog Posts
How to Accelerate New Manufacturing Job Skills
4 steps to successful manufacturing onboarding process.
Press Releases
Tooling U-SME Partners With CyManII to Launch a Cybersecurity Training Program
Tooling U-SME, the workforce training and development arm of SME, and CyManII, the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute, have partnered to deliver “CyManII Sealed”-- endorsed