Central AlabamaWorks' Manufacturing program offers Pathway to Success for Autauga County Career Tech - Elmore Autauga News

Tatum Northington

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Students successful the Modern Manufacturing Pilot Program astatine the Autauga Career Tech Center received a caller portion of instrumentality for their laboratory – Five New Virtual Reality Headsets. Through the Modern Manufacturing Program, Central AlabamaWorks has invested implicit $10,000 to day into Autauga County Career Tech Center successful instrumentality and grooming and plans to put much implicit the coming twelvemonth done manufacture partnerships.

Central AlabamaWorks! is simply a non-profit enactment established to enactment passim Region 5, a thirteen-county workforce portion successful Central Alabama including the pursuing counties: Autauga, Bullock, Chambers, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Perry, Russell, and Tallapoosa. The ngo of Central AlabamaWorks! is to facilitate a strategy that provides concern and manufacture with occupation seekers and students who person received the acquisition and grooming that aligns with their needs passim the region.

The Modern Manufacturing Pilot Program is present successful six counties successful Central AlabamaWorks! thirteen region region, a effect of the expanding request for a skilled manufacturing workforce. Students larn basal employability skills, safety, method skills, and manufacturing principles needed to beryllium palmy successful today’s manufacturing environment.

As Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama continues to expand, the works took steps to accelerate the fig of students who privation to prosecute a vocation successful the automotive manufacture “At HMMA, we judge successful investing successful our squad members and communities that situation our installation present successful Alabama. Our aboriginal squad members volition beryllium perfectly indispensable to our occurrence and growth, not conscionable arsenic a company, but arsenic a assemblage partner. We person ever felt that occurrence and learning spell manus successful hand, and we are delighted to beryllium capable to beryllium a portion of this breathtaking learning opportunity,” said Robert Burns, Chief Administrative Officer, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama.

“Preparing our younker for the workforce for time is simply a apical precedence for the Autauga County Commission,” said Autauga County Commission Chairman Jay Thompson. “Companies are utilizing Virtual Reality to alteration and amended their manufacturing and allied processes. These VR headsets volition assistance to guarantee Autauga County students person the tools indispensable to beryllium amended prepared to participate the workforce. Thank you to our partners astatine Central Alabamaworks for supporting workforce improvement and acquisition opportunities successful Autauga County. Together we are creating a stronger workforce for our industries and businesses.” 

“We person to person a workforce that’s acceptable to physique cars,” said Deputy Secretary of Commerce and AIDT Executive Director, Ed Castile. “Shortly Alabama volition beryllium the 2nd astir car producing authorities successful the state down Michigan.”

The Modern Manufacturing Program utilizes manufacture enactment to plan vocation pathways that conscionable manufacture needs and amended the endowment pipeline.  Instructors not lone thatch manufacturing principles, but telephone connected section and determination manufacturers to beryllium successful the classroom.  Students tin person up to 7 stackable credentials successful the multi-year programme disposable to students successful grades 10-12.

“The Modern Manufacturing Pilot Program blends the schoolroom skills needed for occurrence with input from automotive leaders truthful that we cognize these students person the close training, cognize what to expect, and volition beryllium acceptable to win successful the workplace,” said Gindi Prutzman, Central AlabamaWorks! Executive Director. “We question to bring manufacture and acquisition unneurotic arsenic often arsenic possible, and this programme does conscionable that.”