The Industry Digest: What workers want from a career in industry
The internet is a vast space that is filled with rabbit holes, endless search results, and adorable cat videos that will consume your entire day in a flash. Finding the information and insights you need to improve productivity and efficiency at your facility can be daunting. Luckily, Plant Services is here to help. We search the web and curate the industry perspectives, trends, and topics that will affect you and your industry. Here are a few of our favorite stories from this week.
Why Talent Tops All In Manufacturers’ Year Ahead [Forbes]
Over the past few years, manufacturers have been forced to overcome unprecedented challenges, but the greatest hurdle still remains. Finding and keeping workers has the potential to make or break the industry. If they hope to survive, manufacturers must adapt to the expectations set by the next generation of workers, which includes increased flexibility and better work-life balance.
Automation Offers Labor Shortage Solutions [Manufacturing.net]
Implementing automation can have numerous benefits for facilities across industries. One advantage of automation might be its potential to help close the skills gap. Automation can protect your workers from having to perform potentially hazardous tasks and allow them to occupy roles that are best suited for humans.
Top 6 Career Trends Impacting Industrial Workers [Thomas]
Americans are redefining the idea of “work.” From an increase in remote work and flexible schedules to an emphasis on finding your passion and creating a stronger work-life balance, employees are pushing for meaningful change in the workplace. This article shines a light on six career trends and how they will affect companies and employees.
Securing the edge begins with securing IoT devices [TechRepublic]
The Internet of Things offers limitless potential, but without the right security systems in place, especially at the device level, that promise can easily turn into problems. This article identifies six IoT device security problems and how to solve them.
Five ways Metaverse is changing manufacturing [Manufacturing Today]
The Metaverse has the potential to change how people engage with one another socially, but it could also have implications for workers, specifically in the manufacturing industry. By providing an interactive space, the Metaverse might foster improved communications between employees, between different departments, and between management and plant-floor workers. This article outlines 6 ways manufacturing might be affected by the Metaverse.
About the Author
Alexis GajewskiAlexis Gajewski
Senior Content Strategist
Alexis Gajewski is a manufacturing writer and editor with nearly 20 years of experience covering the people, practices, and technologies that keep industrial facilities running. For more than a decade, she served as Senior Content Strategist for Plant Services, creating content for plant managers, engineers, and maintenance professionals on a variety of industrial topics.
During her tenure, Alexis worked to develop the brand’s digital strategy and helped launch and produce Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast. She also created The Lighter Side of Manufacturing, a weekly blog that explored the inventive and sometimes humorous side of the industry.
Alexis co-founded Influential Women in Manufacturing, a recognition program that honored 49 women in its first two years, earned an industry award for Best Product Launch, and received a proclamation from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and a commendation from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth.
She also led newsroom operations and development at a large media company where she set editorial standards, developed training curriculum, and helped support AI adoption for more than 150 editors across 80+ brands spanning manufacturing, industrial processing, automation, and more.
Additionally, Alexis works as a freelance writer and editor, and her areas of interest include continuous improvement, the skilled workforce, and the role of emerging technology on the plant floor.
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