KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City nonprofit is helping revitalize the art of sewing by training people to become industrial sewing machine operators. Through a partnership with both the U.S. and ...

Increased use of “smart” manufacturing machinery — connected equipment that produces reams of actionable operational data — and automation in general mean that a new generation of plastics machinery ...

Having proactively tracked operator performance since 2004, DuPont began to notice a clear trend developing a few years ago. Their operator performance was declining—an issue that coincided with an ...

When 95% of consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies surveyed by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, say they are struggling to hire skilled operators and technicians, it ...

Here’s the problem, and the challenge: customer ineptitude confers leverage on suppliers. Use it: suppliers can be heroes. Inactivity, indifference and a corporate shrug of the shoulders negate ...

ForgeFX Simulations and Somero Enterprises announced the completion of the S-22EZ Advanced Laser Screed Virtual Training Simulator. Designed to transform how operators learn and master the art of ...