World Class Manufacturing

Jay Baron, Ph.D.

President & CEO

“We chose Traverse City as a place to get away with a few friends and talk about manufacturing.”

Donald N. SmithSociety of Manufacturing Engineering Fellow, 1988

The apprenticeship crisis is serious today and getting worse

Tooling:

• Tool & die expertise needed at launch

• Advancing materials exacerbate the problem

• 1/3 tool shops gone between 1997 - 2012 (Contraction approaching 50% today)

• Today’s average tool maker age is over 52

• Leading causes of contraction:– Productivity improvement (CNC, +++)

– Sourcing to low cost countries

Reference: “The Tool and Die Industry …,” Congressional Research Office, Bill Canis, 2012

“The computer in metal-working may initiate a second industrial revolution: it will certainly change die processing radically.”

Donald Smith, 1968*

• Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley• Scott Garberding• David Degraaf• Tooling, Technology and Talent (T3) - Update• Break• Leah Curry• Kevin Rahrig• Q&A• Enlighten Award

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Source: JD Power Initial Quality Survey 2017

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