MassMEP Next Generation Manufacturer News

In This Issue…
Insights into what’s happening in manufacturing in Massachusetts. Best practices, success stories, and trends from manufacturing organizations that are growing and improving the economy. Share with us what you’d like to hear about in these issues. – Kathie Mahoney, Editor, [email protected] or (508) 831-7020.

What’s Trending in Manufacturing?

• What Cobots Can Do for Your Business

• Workshop: Release the Power of Robot Automation, May 30, 2019, Worcester, MA

Manufacturing Metrics

• New Study Finds MEP Generates Substantial 14.4:1 ROI

Video of the Month

• WPI Teams with Worcester Red Sox to Create 21st C Ballpark

  

Workforce Strategies

• How Manufacturers Value and Use Industry Credentials to Source Skilled Talent

• Are Millennials Killing the Manufacturing Sector

• How to Motivate the Millennial Workforce

• MacDiarmid Machining Receives Workforce Grant

• Professional Development: How Science Informs Engineering

Innovative Growth Solutions

• Transforming Vision Into Reality: An Action Plan

Manufacturing Apprenticeships

• Top 5 Benefits of a Modernized Apprenticeship Program

• New Apprenticeship Tax Credit for Manufacturers

Manufacturing USA Institutes

• ARM Funds 11 New Robotics Projects

• FLEXcon Receives Manufacturing Innovation Grant

Industry News

• MEP’s Evolution from System to Network

• Reluctance to Employ Cobots Driven by Misconceptions

• High Schools Launch Innovation Pathway Programs

• AIM Names John Regan New President and CEO

• Markforged and Carahsoft Partner on Additive Manufacturing Systems

• Color-Changing Threads Indicate Gas Exposure

Job Opportunities

• Laboratory Supervisor, Boston University, College of Engineering, Boston, MA – Send resume

MassMEP Events

For complete details about these programs for manufacturers, visit the MAC Events Calendar.

• Release the Power of Robot Automation, Worcester, MA – May 30, 2023

• DeviceTalks, Boston, MA – June 5-6, 2019

• Leveraging Today’s Digital and Social Channels for Manufacturers to Retain and Attract Talent, Worcester, MA – June 12, 2023

• Set Your Company to Achieve Your Sales Goals, Worcester, MA – July 23, 2023

• Take the Guesswork Out of Growth, Worcester, MA – August 8, 2023

Partner Events

• SBDC, Powering Your Exports: Program for Manufacturing and Tech Companies, Lawrence, MA – May 30, 2023

• Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturing Roundtable Q2: Why Worcester, – June 4, 2023

• AIM, New Massachusetts Data Breach Law Update, webinar – June 5, 2023

• AIM, OSHA Safety Series, Holyoke, MA – June 5, 2023

• New England Business Association, Latest Healthcare Trends in Massachusetts, Boston, MA – June 5, 2023

• AIM, Management Certificate Series, Chelmsford, MA – June 7 to July 12, 2023

• WPI, TouchTomorrow: A Festival of Science, Technology, and Robots, Worcester, MA – June 8, 2023

• Mass Innovation Nights at IndusPAD, Lawrence, MA – June 12, 2023

• SBDC, How to Become a GSA Federal Supply Schedule Holder and Government Contacting 101, Boston, MA – June 12, 2023

• SNEEF, 2019 Summer Networking, Fall River, MA – June 13, 2023

• AIM, Best Practices of Sustainability, Auburn, MA – June 14, 2023

• ISPE, 2019 Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Conference, Boston, MA – June 18-20, 2019

• SBDC, Powering Your Exports: Program for Manufacturing and Tech Companies, Springfield, MA – June 19, 2023

• ARMI, BioFabUSA Spring Summit, Manchester, NH – June 19-20, 2019

• New England Business Association, Labor & Employment Roundtable, Providence, RI – June 19, 2023

• USGBC, Healthy Building Summit 2019, Cambridge, MA – June 24, 2023

• WPI, Cold Spray Action Team Conference, Worcester, MA – June 25-26, 2019

• AIM, Marijuana and Its Impact on the Workplace, webinar – June 26, 2023

• AIM, Management Certificate Series, Mansfield, MA – July 17 to August 14, 2023

• SBDC, Managing Export Operations and Compliance, webinar – July 19, 2023

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