Manufacturing Journal

American Manufacturers working together to compete globally in the 21st century

Sunday, April 17, 2005

We Have 50 Top Notch, Best Skilled Manufacturing Types in the US: Their Resumes Below:

PO Box 33
Cleveland, OH 44110
Phone: 216-628-454517
Fax: 216-628-454516
Email: Otto@mation.com


Resume for
Otto Mation


Career Objectives: To find a Machine Tending job that will satisfy my insatiable appetite for repetitious work.

Summary of Qualifications : I can continuously and accurately lift heavy loads without a break, and I will never get tired! You will not have to pay me any benefits. I will not come in late (in fact, I’ll never leave the shop floor!) I expect to be locked up in a cage in front of your machine, and forgotten about for hours at a time. I will never complain, even though I expect to get the toughest and most boring jobs in the company!

Education: My memory has been uploaded with all the logic and capabilities I will ever need. Once you tell me the specifics of the job you want me to run, I will never forget them or miss and operation.

Interests and Activities: I have no family life, social life, or any life for that matter, outside of working 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Languages: I speak most any language required to communicate with any machine tool, programmer, operator, computer, scheduler, web site, network, etc.

Work Experience: I am the product of decades of experience passed on by my predecessors. I have accumulated the latest in technology and have been designed specifically for companies that require flexible automation.

Hobbies: I especially enjoy monotonous, strenuous, and tedious jobs. I am also perfect for unsafe working conditions, and expect do the work that most operators dread!

Extracurricular Activities: Besides tending machines, I like to de-burr, wash, inspect, package, assemble, polish, and just about anything else you require of me.

References: Any innovative manufacturer that has seen the advantages of automating their machine tools. They will tell you that I can reduce your labor costs considerably, while increasing productivity and quality.

Compensation: For about $1,000 per month for five years, I will agree to work 24 hours per day, 364 days per year (I need about one day a year to keep in shape). I will also agree to work for FREE after the 1st five years! (I am expected to live 10 to 15 years with proper care!) I will never quit, and promise to work just as hard until my retirement! (No pension, watch, or party required!)
Thomas

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Does Your Company Need Skilled Workers?

How much would you pay for an experienced set-up person and programmer delivered to your doorstep first thing Monday morning?
Yes I know, the first question would be "Do you have two or three?"

Just the thought or wet dream of hiring an experienced applications engineer sends a tingle down the old spine! You know, somewhat the same tingle about 35 years ago, being at the beach looking at some attractive ladies /or hunks, whichever is your preference these days.
Well, it is thirty years too late and the chances of getting an experienced application person is just about as remote as you going back in time. The question is: What are we doing, or should be doing to get that tingle back? (I mean the experienced applications engineer?)

It seems that our local educational institutions are too worried about fuel cells, nano-something, bio-chemical infusion/diffusion, etc..
All we manufactureres are asking is to give us the skilled workers that we can use in our plants today.
It seems that we make a point of not talking to our educational institutions, while in fact, we should be demanding of them to give us the people with the skills needed in manufacturing.
Collaborating, working together towards a solution, would seem like a good start. The global competition is going to pull us together, in numbers we gain strength. Whether it be changing the laws or changing the curriculum in schools, we must join together and continue to be a global manufacturing might.

The media tells us that the American manufacturing industry is dead.
Manufacturing by far is not dead, but it is changing, and for the better.
It seems safe to say if manufacturing is dying, so is the country. Without manufacturing we will not have a country, at least not the way we envisioned America the Great. Instead we will be America the Land of Paupers.

Thomas

More:
Connecticut Business & Industry Association Survey
Shortage of Skilled Workers in Asia Also !!
Manufacturing is "not dead", it is changing.
Huntsville, Alabama is saying we need more skilled people.
Making Manufacturing "SEXY"!!
Shortage of Skilled Workers Imperils the Industry

Productivity's Role in the Future of Manufacturing

What key competitive ingredient has China sold to Corporate America? Infrastructure? Worker knowledge/skills? Logistics? Value added? State-of-the-Art technology? Quality?
How about CHEAP Labor, period!
What can the small to mid sized manufacturer do to remain competitive?
How about Automation?
The idea that automation is expensive, complicated and not ready for the small shop is a notion that keeps many shop owners from pursuing automated solutions. This is important because today’s competition for the small shop is not the guy down the street. Today, it’s the shop in another country, even across an ocean. When faced with problems with low-wage, global competitors, solutions can seem too expensive, too complicated and out of reach.
Ask yourself this, if you reduced your labor costs by 80%, what would that do for the next job you quote?
In the Business Week article below (web link), reference is made to what a 5% improvement in productivity here in the U.S. will get you… not much!
What would an affordable automated system get you? Throw in the people needed to get it designed, set-up and running?
It may be true that today, automation is not entirely viable for the little guy. We’d like to change that.
Dave
"The China Price"