Where does the bulk of NDT training responsibility lie, in the classroom or in the field? Nondestructive testing (NDT) is crucial for ensuring safety and reliability. However, there is an ongoing debate about where the bulk of NDT training responsibility lies.

Quality plays a role in everything from cost to manufacture to sales to the reputation of the company. We all can think of any product and think of a company with excellent quality and a company with poor quality. How do we prepare the future workforce for the field?

Developed nations, though equipped with industrial and educational infrastructures, face a current and increasing shortage of qualified, skilled and motivated workers.

A much-discussed manufacturing skills gap between retiring baby boomers and millennials in their 20s and 30s—plus, current 18 to 23-year-olds who belong to Generation Z—remains an issue.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments and Oklahoma State University (OSU) have joined forces to help establish The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s (CEAT) Mechanical and Physical Properties Testing Lab.

As technology has marched forward, advanced manufacturing organizations have wrestled with how to fill jobs with competent workers. 

Army Trail Road, in Chicago’s western suburbs, is dotted with metal fabrication plants — production facilities offering high-tech manufacturing jobs at living wages.