Standard personal protective equipment for machine shops includes heavy-duty safety gloves, as well as safety glasses or goggles, and respirators. Walking into a machine shop without proper training ...

Three, maybe four years left, Dick Farrar figured. One customer had already sent a contract to Taiwan, and the others were complaining that his small, 70-year-old machine shop was a relic. Put your ...

SOUTHFIELD (WWJ) - The job market is tough -- in Michigan the unemployment rate is at 8.9 percent -- but there are jobs out there, especially in specialized markets like machine shops and for ...

DESPITE THE GLOOMY OUTLOOK painted for manufacturing jobs, there is an acute shortage of trained machinists. While training in the latest metalworking and machine technologies is available, that ...

The Machine Shop is filled with tools to support class projects. In their first semester, students taking Manufacturing Processes (MFET-120) learn to safely operate each machine tool and its ...

The next time you see Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump out on the stump harping about the importance of importance of good-paying jobs or a strong manufacturing sector, think about Jeromy Eickhoff. The ...

The idea behind New Pathways Tech, slated to become a nonprofit organization, is restoring the opportunity for hands-on learning through the teaching of basic machine shop skills applicable in all ...

Though Yale is attempting to standardize safety procedures in its machine shops after the tragic death of a student last April, one proposed aspect of the new protocol may not appear in every facility ...

Yale’s administration has released a new set of safety regulations for campus machine shops August 19 in response to the death of Michele Dufault ’11 in a Sterling Chemical Laboratory shop last April.