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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers who represent machine technology and mechanical design and drafting occupations need electronic technicians who understand mechanical components and who are trained in mechatronics. They also say skilled drafters are in short supply.
| "We only have CNCs and our manual equipment. And that's the thing, if you can just change parts on a CNC that's one thing, but to be able to take a drawing, program it, set it up, run it, and inspect it—that's useful." | Northeast |
| "There's been a national shortage of CNC programmers. Maybe it's because programmers come from the machinists and CNC operator tool and die makers. But regionally, statewide, and nationally business cannot find enough CNC programmers because they're not trained as a skill set. They're trained as part of a skill set, to be a machinist. As a result of the shortage, the Twin Cities area has developed quite a number of CNC programming consultant companies who are just doing programming. But I think we need to address the issue of supplying the skill set of CNC programmers. Because that's where business does its business mostly, on quoting work and being successful in setting up the machines to match what the quoting time was. And they have to be very productive and skilled. We've talked about this issue statewide and it keeps, I think, being caught up in a group of skill sets that doesn't get enough attention." | Northeast |
| "Yeah, and that's the thing, we only have CNCs and our manual equipment. If you can just change parts on a CNC that's one thing, but if you're able to take a drawing, program it, set it up, run it, and inspect it—that's useful." | Northeast |