Manufacturing Journalist Thomas R. Cutler profiled the role of ResourceMFG in the current issue of AutomationMedia.com. The entire article can be read http:www.automationmedia.comTRCutler.asp?ID % 2026.
According to Julie Maydew, vice president of ResourceMFG, the manufacturing organization of leading investment in detail some of the basic personal challenges in the plastics sector. According to Maydew, The plastics industry uses a wide variety of skills in its production units with emphasis on process and configuration of equipment used to manufacture the product. Moulding and Extrusion cover a wide range of products and to find qualified staff, they must be recruited from other plastics industries. Except for data entry operators at the machine and the staff of secondary operations, molding and extruder specific experience are required; couple that with the variety of raw profile of the ideal candidate is often unique to the firm hiring. The matches must be made with candidates who have conducted similar equipment and familiarity and experience. Since much of the molding and extrusion has been sent to sea, the specific skills required have migrated to other process industries and have adapted to the outside the manufacture of plastics. With production facilities unless the United States, the pool of potential recruits has diminished considerably.