This is in part due to the large number of Baby Boomers retiring from skilled labor positions, and young workers not entering into the workforce at a sufficient enough rate. A Deloitte and Manufacturing Institute study predicted American manufacturers will need to fill 3.5 million jobs by 2025, but also prognosticate 2 million of those spots will remain vacant due to the lack of skilled manufacturing jobs. So why has machining—and skilled labor in general—struggled to attract new talent?
“It is a two-fold failure, one on the part of the mass manufacturing industry and two on the vision of the current employment pool of potential candidates,” stated John MacDonald, president of
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