Sunday, February 7, 2016

NIMS Initiative to Address High- Tech Industrial Skills Gap


The National Institute of Metalworking Skills (USA) began an association of industrial and educational interests focus on community college training, technical college instructors and corporate trainers and maintaining (ITM) industrial technology - maintenance, troubleshooting and improving complex machines and automation systems, including multi-axis machines, transport operations, robotics and hydraulics.

These types of production systems are becoming more common, and NIMS noted that these technologies are becoming increasingly important and in use by the automotive industry, aviation / aerospace, railway, shipbuilding and heavy trucks and off-road vehicle manufacturers .

He said the demand for workers in these operations increased by 118% from 2011 to 2015 in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

"While employers are faced with a real-time skill shortages, employment and wages, which are half the jurisdiction of $ 25.00 / hour average opportunities abound for those seeking motivated good jobs in an area focused technology increasingly "NIMS Executive Director, Jim wall said.

NIMS join their initiative are innovations Light for Tomorrow (LIFT) and Ivy Tech Community College, the community college system in Indiana, with offices in 31 cities.

LIFT is Innovations Light for Tomorrow program is an "innovation institute in manufacturing" federal administered by the Institute of lightweight materials US Innovation Manufacturing, a partnership announced in 2014 to coordinate academic and institutional research probable and / or partners Industrial available.

"In 2015, there were more than 53,000 jobs in industrial maintenance technology published in the region," the executive director of LIFT, Larry Brown.

"Our qualified manufacturers depend on these jobs to support productive manufacturing and integrate the latest technologies in business processes and maintain its performance over time workers."

Ivy Tech and NIMS launched a series of ITM workshops to train instructors in educational institutions and corporate training programs on how to implement industry standards for technology service industry programs, and provide credentials related to NIMS students.

NIMS is also associated with Amatrol (a developer of modules focused on interactive learning technical skills) to develop multimedia training materials to support ITM NIMS certifications. The "e-Learning Suite", industry, interactive content validated as a 3D simulation, videos and questionnaires that are consistent with certified nine NIMS ITM Level I.

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