• RAMS Center offers training and skills development to area businesses and manufacturers

• Assessing the early effects of the economic crisis on the employment experiences of workers

• Manufacturers donate funds to inspire the next generation of skilled workers

• Students win manufacturing scholarships

• Project-management course teaches participants effective leadership skills

• Economic optimism is slowly rebounding among U.S. industrial manufacturers

• Pickens says U.S. foreign oil dependence figures continue to grow

• Keep It Made in America bus tour to traverse 11 states

• Miami proposes to lead the nation in energy efficiency with Smart Grid initiative

• Spirit of Innovation award-winners combine education and entrepreneurship

• Technology Career Days introduces students to careers in automation and technology

• Live from Hannover Messe via YouTube

• Veterans' unemployment level is more than 11%

• Survey: We want your opinions about Plant Services newsletters

• Infrared camera shows that the chili is hot

• Plant safety art contest open to children of U.S. and Canadian plant workers

• Unsafe work practices in motion

• Cooper Industries opens industrial training center

• Pickens leads virtual march on Washington, D.C., for energy independence

• Follow Plant Services and Skill TV on Twitter

• Where have all the plumbers gone?

• SMRP to administer CIMM certification

• Presentation shows benefits of pursuing maintenance as a career choice

• Survey reveals Americans' attitudes about domestic manufacturers

• Plant Services adds easy-to-use linking feature to Web articles

• What is on your maintenance wish list?

• Mythbusters' Grant Imahara stars in FMA/UL Laboratories safety video for 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition

• Donations help inspire a new generation of engineers

• Cleveland high school first to earn metalworking skills accreditation

• Casting skilled workers in a new light

• Be a Trenches contributor

• Engineering confidential: Give execs a piece of your mind

• Students sharpen engineering skills by participating in pumpkin chunkin’ presidential exit poll

• Grainger donates $100,000 to support Michigan's No Worker Left Behind initiative

• Putman Media launches online career centers

• ATS hosts tours of successful plants across America

• Decisions, decisions, decisions

• Union rolls out mobile unit to address skilled welder shortage

• The Maintenance Evangelist discusses industry's "perfect storm"

• Strategic maintenance: Is it in your plan?

• Plant Services wins awards

• Bucknell University receives $1.1 million in grants to study engineering recruitment and education

• South Carolina Engineering Cluster grows to 160 organization members, receives grant

• Grainger expands scholarship program to address skilled labor shortage

• WSJ highlights skilled labor shortage

• Lincoln Electric Welding School offers new class schedule

• Workforce trends white paper discusses maintenance crisis

• Movies, parental influence add to maintenance crisis

• Report: Money worries influenced maintenance decisions on fallen Minneapolis bridge

• Blog: Read about The Automation Federation's Congressional Fly-In

• Parlez-vous “Brain Drain?”

• Podcast: FMA spokesman Brennan Palmiter, John Ratzenberger talk about the future of manufacturing

• Manufacturers say outsourcing maintenance will keep their plants viable

• Lincoln Electric supports American Welding Society Foundation in campaign to relieve welder shortage

• 'Maintenance Evangelist' Joel Leonard goes to Washington

• Maintenance Evangelist joins Council on Competitiveness

• Help fight the maintenance crisis with your experiences

• NASA selects Howard University for launch of science education program

• The American Association of Community and Grainger partner to help students

• Maintenance | Maintenance Crisis goes hip-hop | Plant Services

• Maintenance evangelist looking for a maintenance woman

• Maintenance evangelist releases song

• Funk for the MRO man

• Crab bucket syndrome

• Protect your condition-monitoring program from the recession guillotine

• Hot heads prevail

• Let's get out of this hole

• Heal thyself

• Money matters

• Time to skill up!

• Dubeautiful Dubai

• Maintenance renaissance

• Beyond the boob tube

• Aging workers

• Replenishing a welding shortfall

• Education can unlock the crisis

• The trades' secret

• Less talk, more action

• Associations join forces to advocate for small and mid-size manufacturers

• Passing it on

• What did you do on your vacation?

• Don't lose it

• Critical steps

• How did you get here?

• Washington gets an ‘Aha!’ moment

• ATS survey shows baby boomer retirement is fueling skilled labor shortage in manufacturing

• ‘Les Misérables’ de maintenance

• Podcast: Economic stimulus could come from investing in U.S. infrastructure

• Them or us

• Showing you the money

• Crisis Corner: Insiders, outsiders

• 'Reliability Nation'

• SkillRadio: Tune in to tune up

• Tune in

• How are you fighting the Maintenance Crisis?

• Personal ways to advance your career and our profession

• Root cause failure analysis of job fairs

• Maintenance Crisis progress report shows mixed results

• Maintenance Crisis comes to Capitol Hill: Lessons learned in D.C.

• Joel Leonard: More lessons learned in D.C.

• Fix It Forward Maintenance Hall of Fame

• Podcast Center

• Think you’re smarter than a maintenance technician?

• Uniform job standards aim at defining the profession

• From pop star wannabes to maintenance heroes

• Formal training and mentorship key to protecting future

• Europe shares common threads in the Maintenance Crisis

• Model car enthusiasts provide good example for maintenance workers

• Put stock in training

• Yo! ASHRAE rap video promotes engineering as career

• Major overhauls in maintenance legislation on the horizon

• Recruiting the future

• The power of maintenance

• No longer one hand clapping

• Readers’ responses validate the Maintenance Crisis

• Take care of your older technology

• Ringtones and mp3 downloads now available at PlantServices.com

• Fix it forward

• Out with the blue collar, in with the green one

• Looking for Mr. Goodjob

• Developing and retaining future craft skills

• Reach for the Ska!

• Appreciate the memories

• Clear up the media cloud

• Katrina exposes the nation to the maintenance crisis

• Maintenance professionals must lead the effort for change

• Deferred maintenance costs pile up

• Signs of revitalized maintenance

• Maintenance profession needs to increase the number of qualified candidates

• Seven secret principles of getting a raise

• How much is ignorance costing your organization?

• A maintenance post-mortem

• Maintenance gets a new rap

• Maintenance Crisis Resource Center

• Get involved with the Maintenance Crisis Resource Center

• A familiar fight for women

• An obituary and farewell to reactive maintenance

• Shareholders caught up in crisis?

• Survivor USA

• Are women welcome?

• Maintenance crisis corner: Calling all students

• Averting the maintenance crisis

• Birth of a maintenance evangelist

• Manufacturing is cool