2. Presentation Outline
• Institute for Emerging Issues
• Why Manufacturing?
• How Manufacturing Has Changed
• Workforce Skills Needed in Manufacturing Today
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4. Institute for Emerging Issues
• Established in 2002 at NC State University
• Dedicated to seeding innovations through civic
engagement, cooperative leadership and informed
problem-solving in education, health, the natural and
built environments, and the economy.
5. Why Manufacturing?
• Manufacturing increases the wealth of the
communities it supports in both rural and urban areas.
• Manufacturing today includes technology
innovation, a highly skilled workforce and above
average pay.
• Manufacturing now relies much more on community-
wide assets, not just company-wide ones.
6. Why Manufacturing?
• Successful communities will be poised to understand
and take advantage of the assets they have at their
disposal to develop manufacturing businesses.
• IEI’s goal is to define the right set of conditions for a
community to maximize its opportunities in
manufacturing.
7. Why Manufacturing?
Questions IEI seeks to answer:
1. What are the assets communities have at their disposal to develop
manufacturing opportunities?
2. What are the state or community factors that help make the
probability of success greater?
3. What are the connective pieces (bond/linkages) that need to be in
place for communities to realize the economic benefits of
manufacturing?
4. How and which communities are successfully taking advantage of
the benefits of manufacturing opportunities?
5. What are the key skills among a productive workforce in advanced
manufacturing settings?
8. Resources & Announcements
• The 28th Annual Emerging Issues Forum Manufacturing Works
will be held in February 11-12, 2013 at the Raleigh Convention
Center.
• We are pleased to confirm Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of
Wired magazine, as one of our keynote speakers. His book
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution is due in October 2012.
• Today’s webinar will be recorded and available on IEI’s website
(www.emergingissues.org)
• IEI has compiled a data sheet on manufacturing statistics
available for reference for anyone to use, which is also on our
website.
9. Resources & Announcements
• IEI’s Emerging Issues Prize has just been announced:
• Students in high school and college are tasked with coming up with
an innovative product idea for their community
• The winner in each age category (high school & college) will be
given $5,000 and be mentored by North Carolina entrepreneur
Louis Foreman as they seek to implement their ideas.
• Over the next several months, IEI will be hosting several
contests. The first one announced today is:
• How has manufacturing changed in your community?
• Send your story, photo, video or other media to
emergingissues@ncsu.edu
• The winner will be announced next month
10. Manufacturing of Today
Terri Helmlingler-Ratcliff, Executive
Director, Industrial Extension Service, NC
State University
11. Manufacturing of Today
• Manufacturing defined: Couldn’t live without it
• Part of the knowledge-based economy
12. Manufacturing of Today
Our fathers wouldn’t recognize most of today’s
manufacturing facilities ….
Or, my visit to Pepsi Bottling Ventures then and now
13. Workforce Skills in Manufacturing
Scott Ralls, President, N.C. Community
College System
15. Workforce Development Focus
• Healthcare
Nurses, Informatics, Medical Lab
• Technicians
Industrial Technologies
Engineering Technologies
Transportation Systems Technologies
Construction Technologies
16. 60% Increase
Unduplicated Enrollment Graduates
over three years
30,000 9,000
25,000 7,182 7,500
Transport Systems 1,809
Technologies
20,000 6,000
5,234
Industrial
6,382 2,119
Technologies
15,000 1,095 4,500
4,808
Engineering
7,120 Technologies 1,252 1,444
10,000 3,000
5,807
Construction 860
Technologies
5,000 2,713 1,500
6,053 7,267 1,837
0 0
2007-2008 2010-2011 2007-2008 2010-2011
17. 2010-11 Female-Male Enrollments
2010-11 Annual Unduplicated Female Male
Construction Technologies 243 7,025
Engineering Technologies 848 6,272
Industrial Technologies 372 6,010
Transport Systems Technologies 373 6,809
Technician Total 1,836 26,116
7% 93%
Agricultural and Natural Resources Technologies 598 1,731
Arts and Sciences 85,672 48,919
Biological and Chemical Technologies 643 618
Business Technologies 32,308 19,273
Commercial and Artistic Production Technologies 1,890 1,927
Health Sciences 24,521 4,313
Public Service Technologies 34,297 12,552
Special Categories 34,484 24,825
All Other Total (including Technician) 216,249 140,274
61% 39%
21. An Example of
Manufacturing Today
Jon Turner, President, ULTRA Machine &
Fabrication in Shelby, NC
22. • extensive experience with military/armored vehicle production.
• Platform Focus: mine-resistant combat vehicles, tank armor kits, trailers, launchers
and large weldments.
• Manufacturing Experts: armor and thick plate cutting, forming and welding.
• CARC painting and value added services.
• Customers: General Dynamics Land Systems, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman,
Oshkosh Defense, Plasan, Rafael, and heavy industry clients.
23. Facilities: 600,000 square feet of
manufacturing space
Jon
SBA HUBZone
Certified
ISO 9001:2008
Certified
27. Weldment Manufacturing
Ultra has one of the
largest and most
versatile welding
programs available.
Total Commitment to
Welding.
Extensive
Continuous
Improvement
Program
Welding School
Introduce the program, title of Manufacturing Works and welcome the three presenters:In order of speaking:1. Terri Helmlingler-Ratcliff, Executive Director, Industrial Extension Service, NC State University2. Scott Ralls, President, NC Community College System3. Jon Turner, President, ULTRA Machine & Fabrication in Shelby, NCMention your remarks will cover IEI’s new program on manufacturing and at the end of your remarks you will be announcing several resources and upcoming items for webinar attendees.
Mention that you will be talking about why IEI decided to dedicate its program to manufacturingThen Terri will talk about how manufacturing has changedScott will talk about the workforce skills needed for today’s manufacturingJon will close with an example of a manufacturing company in Shelby NC that exemplifies the new manufacturing today
Manufacturing is North Carolina’s greatest source of growth and innovation.70 percent of private R&D is spent in manufacturing.For a state to have rising wages and a higher standard of living, it must become more productive. Manufacturing is one of our most productive sectors– the growth of innovation within the industry spills over into the rest of the economy.Put another way, manufacturing has the highest multiplier effect on the economy – creating more growth and job creation in other sectors than any other industry in the economy.Manufacturing has become horizontally integrated so in previous decades there were mega firms that supported thousands of people in one location. Now firms are more likely to be clustered together in support of manufacturing – All of these changes means that communities’ assets are more important than ever for maximizing the opportunities in manufacturing
Our program then is the nexus of manufacturing and communities. We want to understand how communities are successful in encouraging manufacturing and how they maintain those relationships.We know that manufacturing brings wealth to communities.
Close with a number of announcements:The Emerging Issues Forum Feb. 11-12Announcement of Chris Anderson as confirmed keynote speakerThe webinar will be recorded and on IEI’s websiteIEI has a data sheet for more facts on modern manufacturing
Last slide – mention the Emerging Issues Prize for Innovation (in its third year) and what its focus will be (an innovative product idea for a community)Mention the contests
Now I want to turn it over to Terri who is going to talk in more detail on how manufacturing is different. Terri has spent her entire career as an engineer and she has spent a lot of time in factories and seen first hand how manufacturing has changed over the years.
So now that we have talked about how manufacturing has changed, it is necessary to talk about the workforce skills needed for modern manufacturing.In a recent survey of economic developers, they were asked to identify the most important factor within a community to select for a manufacturing project site – and no surprise skilled workforce was the top item mentioned.Scott Ralls, our President of the NC Community College System is going to talk in detail about what he is doing to train today’s manufacturing workforce.
- Last but not least, we will be hearing from Jon Turner about what he is doing to bring ULTRA into the modern manufacturing age.
