Manufacturing Education and Training

News Release - The Manufacturing Extension Partnership program demonstrates advanced technologies to manufacturing companies

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Seattle, WA, USA--(Jobwerx)--APRIL 9, 2005--The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), comprises more than 70 facilities nationwide that give manufacturers technological resources helping them be efficient, productive, and competitive.

NIST is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration.

Part of MEP is the Alabama Technology Network (ATN), which, in turn, has 10 technology centers, each tailored to meet local industry needs, linking academia and a state economic-development program. Started in 1988, the Bevill Manufacturing Technology Center, Gadsden, Ala., is the oldest and largest with its main purpose was to demonstrate advanced technologies to companies. The centers also offer a good sampling of software and can do reverse-engineering for companies.

Equipment at the center includes four Hurco VMCs - three VM1s and a VM2 - each of which features conversational programming. One has a probing system for in-process monitoring. Bevill also has other machine tools and EDMs, a load-unload robot, a CMM, an optical comparator, and a lot of small gaging tools.

Bevill helps companies get their ISO certifications, provides robotic training, and occasionally runs jobs for shops. The center also performs SPC and lean-manufacturing training. And the Anaston Army Depot, a military facility that reworks equipment such as tanks, has a large machine shop at the center. Many of the center's students, employed with local tool and die companies, are in apprenticeships to get machinist Journeyman's certificates.

They recently adopted a National Institute of Metalworking Standards (NIMS) program that accredits machinists called The National Competency Based Apprenticeship System. NIMS has created national standards, setting up exams and parts for students to make so that someone passing the NIMS level in milling in Alabama, for example, could go to Michigan and there would be a common reference.

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