Why unemployed tech workers should consider a career in automotive manufacturing
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.
5 Proven Strategies To Overcome Contingent Workforce Management Challenges In The Manufacturing Sector [Forbes]
Contingent workers offer one solution manufactures can use to fight the skilled labor shortage. This type of workforce, with its inherent complexities, offers new challenges for workforce management. This article details five ways manufacturers can use new technologies and solutions to manage and retain their contract talent.
Why Use a CT Scanner for an Industrial Job? [Manufacturing.net]
When most people hear the phrase “CT scan,” they envision a medical procedure. However, that same technology can be utilized in the industrial sector. These real-world applications include product quality control and evaluating packaging integrity. This article can help you assess whether this technology is right for your facility.
Tech giants have cut tens of thousands of jobs. Automakers are ready to hire them. [Insider]
Losing a job is always difficult. Facing an uncertain future can be daunting, but with this fear comes the potential for something better. As the tech sector continues to cut jobs, these newly unemployed workers might want to consider pivoting to a career in automotive manufacturing.
Zero-emission steel won’t happen without trade-offs, scientists say [The Washington Post]
Steel is an essential component of our modern society, and its production creates a high level of carbon dioxide emissions. Over the past few years, we’ve heard about green steel and zero-emission steel, but these solutions may not be as effective as we want them to be. This article highlights the latest research on sustainable steel production and why the world may have to learn to live with less steel.
Supply Chain Management: Preparing For The Now. [Forbes]
It’s undeniable that 2022 was a difficult year for supply chains and everyone who relies on them. While it might seem like many of the disruptions are over, they might simply be evolving. This article examines five issues facing supply chains in 2023 as we grapple with a possible recession.
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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