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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:
Respondents who represent system automation technology and machine technology occupations state they need workers with skills in quality inspection, maintenance, and program logic controls (PLCs). They also say that higher order computer skills are essential.
| "I'll go right into electronics and robotics—PLCs. Every new piece of technology that we pull into our plant has a PLC—a programmable logic control. It's basically a touch-screen computer where you set how that machine is going to run. And I have a tough time getting even people who I've hired out of technical schools to be able figure it out and run it—even after we've trained them for 20 hours on it." | Southwest |
| "I need good machine operators. People that can run the machines with the PLCs." | Southwest |