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15 Action Items Factory Owners Can Do to Attract a Younger Workforce

Keeping your manufacturing business in good shape means continually hiring and training new workers as others quit or retire. But with the drop in younger applicants to manufacturing jobs, you and other managers run the risk of retiring your company out of existence. It's imperative that you start attracting younger people to your company so you can continue to have a strong workforce. Here are 15 things you can do to get that process rolling now.

Patrick O’Rahilly
By Patrick O’Rahilly
on Nov 22, 2016 7:00 AM. 13 min read time
 
15 Action Items Factory Owners Can Do to Attract a Younger Workforce

Keeping your manufacturing business in good shape means continually hiring and training new workers as others quit or retire....

Patrick O’Rahilly
By Patrick O’Rahilly
on Nov 22, 2016 7:00 AM
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Challenges of a Vision System for Template Matching

When implementing a vision system it is important to understand what constitutes a challenge for this kind of algorithm. Some...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Nov 21, 2016 7:00 AM
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What's New in Robotics This Week - Nov 18

Unrequited bot love; new drones rules; Jibo raises $13m; artificial skin for robots; cobots lend a helping arm; Japan's 1st...

Emmet Cole
By Emmet Cole
on Nov 18, 2016 7:00 AM
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Trending on DoF This Week - Nov. 17

What's trending on DoF this week? Using one snapshot position to sort multiple parts, sampling rate for polishing, Revtech...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Nov 17, 2016 7:00 AM
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Choosing the Correct 2D Vision System for Your Application

There are two main categories of 2D sensors that you can buy: intelligent cameras (also called smart cameras) that have the...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Nov 16, 2016 7:00 AM
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How a Collaborative Robot Uses Super Powers to ‘See’ You

Chances are that one of your coming colleagues will be a collaborative robot. So it might be good to know how such a...

Marc Prosser
By Marc Prosser
on Nov 15, 2016 7:00 AM
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Before He Designed an HR policy, He Found Balance in His Own Life: Meet Olivier Vachon

Olivier Vachon’s human resources skills include being a good judge of character in the recruitment process, a personal belief...

Philip Fine
By Philip Fine
on Nov 14, 2016 7:00 AM
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What's New in Robotics This Week - Nov 11

US Robotics Roadmap; drone-based security; snow-clearing robot; October funding & financials; the robot whisperer; new Rubik's...

Emmet Cole
By Emmet Cole
on Nov 11, 2016 7:00 AM
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Trending on DoF This Week - Nov. 10

What's trending on DoF this week? Screw insertion using Robotiq camera, Robotiq products weights, bottle packaging with UR and...

Amanda Lee
By Amanda Lee
on Nov 10, 2016 7:00 AM
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