The Advanced Manufacturing Workforce

1. The Advanced
Manufacturing
Workforce
12/1/2016
9/9/16
Presented by:
Dustin Lindley, Advanced
Manufacturing Center
Manager for UCRI

2. • Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC): researching the
theory and application of advanced manufacturing techniques
in industrially relevant ways
• Includes, but extends beyond, additive manufacturing
– Modern manufacturing value chains
– Development of hybrid (additive and subtractive together)
processes
– Other production processes (MIM, part finishing techniques,
machining, etc.)
• Core competencies
– Process development for additive manufacturing (AM)
– AM machine design and modification
– Sensor and process controls
– Material and geometric optimization
UCRI
Advanced ManufacturingCenter

3. CincinnatiStateTechnicaland
CommunityCollege
• ~10,000 students in a wide range of
programs
– Accounting to Yoga Teacher Training
• Excellent Electro-mechanical Engineering
Technology- Laser program
• Pre-Engineering students often continue at
University of Cincinnati
– Certificates and 2 year degrees
• Workforce development since 1969

4. • Workforce development collaboration
• Goal: Equip the Workers of Tomorrow
• How: Develop industrially relevant
curriculum in advanced manufacturing,
along with cutting-edge training facilities
• Help engage students through their innate
need and ability to make things

5. Advanced ⊃ Additive 3DPrinting⊃
DMLS
FDM
SLA
SLS
Planning
Design
Subtractive
Posttreat
Inspection

6. • What does the advanced manufacturing
workforce look like?
• What do employers need now?
• What will they need in the future?
• How do we develop interest in
manufacturing among students and
parents of students?
The Advanced ManufacturingWorkforce

7. Theworkers
• Targeting two types of students
– Students entering workforce
– Experienced workers seeing new skills
• Hope is to attract both to courses
– Interaction between two groups benefits both
• Some differences in motivation
– Younger students are impressed by the “cool”
factor
– Experienced workers may see threat to current
job

8. Employer needs
• Collaboration between Village of Evendale, Cincinnati
State, and UCRI (among others) in formation of
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
– Part of AeroHUB (http://www.evendaleohio.org/economic-
development/pages/welcome-aerohub) economic
development project
• TAC consists of executives and technical personnel
from various local manufacturing companies
– Chaired by Greg Morris from GE Aviation
• TAC is charged with providing guidance for curriculum
to insure it’s effective and relevant
• TAC and Cincinnati State conducted employer survey

9. Selectionofsurveyresults
58.3%
41.7%
AdvancedManufacturing
Technology Usage
Yes No

10. Engaging students
• Manufacturing as a career choice must be seen as feasible
– To students, but also to parents
– Examples abound of unfilled, high paying jobs in advanced
manufacturing
• Signs of a change
– The Maker movement
– Cool hobby stuff
• Drone racing!
• Battling robots!
– Massive industry investment

11. Currentcollaborationactivity
• Building classroom facility at Cincinnati State
Workforce Development Center
– Funding partially from Regionally Aligned
Priorities in Delivering Skills (RAPIDS) program
– Using FDM technology as primary teaching tool
– Also have one SLA machine in classroom
– Plan to use UCRI facility for metals
• Seeking funding for development of open
source additive manufacturing curriculum

12. Open SourceAM
CurricullumGoals
• Develop curriculum focused on industrial
applications of additive manufacturing
– Measurement is critical differentiator
– Each student will get a digital caliper
• Approximately 75% lab time
– Introduce a topic at beginning of class, explore
for remainder
• Allow for failure!!!
– Machines break, builds turn into bird nests
• Use open source technology when possible
– Hardware and software
– Don’t be pedantic; allow closed software, but
take advantage of free options

13. Summary
• Questions remain, but we have some
unique tools to answer them
– TAC is a major asset to insure relevance
• Attracting the best students to these fields
may be getting easier, but it’s not easy
• Plenty of work to do!