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Recent articles warn of a looming skills gap among plant operators and
engineers. A high percentage of today's operations and engineering staffs are in
the 50-and-over age group, and many manufacturing firms are headed for trouble
when this group retires. Noting that apprentice programs used to be quite
common, they say manufacturers today don't want to invest in training or
apprentice programs. Moreover, current manufacturing executives lack computer
literacy (beyond basic word processing and spread sheet usage) and have little
understanding of the demands that build-to-order, adaptive manufacturing place
upon operations. Are more training and apprenticing programs needed? Does this
skills gap exist, or is it overblown? And if it does exist, what is the best
remedy for it?
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