RIMA will be offering eight-week GD&T Training starting on or about January 7th, 2020. The class will be led by Gene Berthiaume, Manufacturing Advisor with RIMA who has taught this class for the past 25 years to more than 300 students. As in the past, the cost will be shared evenly between state training grants [...]
Vertikal6 are honored to be selected to receive the 2019 Providence Business News Business Excellence Award in the Small Business Category. This premier business awards event recognizes leadership and general excellence at private and public companies as well as non-profit organizations. "We are so humbled to be named the "best of the best" in the [...]
PRESS RELEASE Press Contact: Belinda Jones, HiTech Marketing llc, Tel: 860-399-1147, belinda.jones@hitechmarketing.comMarketing Contact: Bridget Benedetti, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Tel: 401-886-2112, Bridget.Benedetti@hexagon.comLink to press release: https://www.hexagonmi.com/en-US/about-us/news/media-releases/2019/november-2019/hexagon-and-university-of-rhode-island-form-collaborative-partnership-for-advanced-manufacturing Hexagon and University of Rhode Island form collaborative partnership for advanced manufacturing New generation of URI engineering students will be prepared for data-powered Smart Manufacturing North Kingstown, RI – November 13, 2019 – [...]
11/06/19 No. 257 - Time to Wake Up: Colorado. Watch it here. 10/30/19 Time to Wake Up: Marathon Petroleum. Watch it here Senator Sheldon Whitehouse questioned Sean O’Donnell, nominee to be Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency, during the Senate EPW Committee nominations hearing. 10/29/19 Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz (D-HI) led a hearing of Senate Democrats’ [...]
Originally published on https://pbn.com/langevin-bill-would-fund-temporary-retention-of-retiring-manufacturing-employees-to-train-others/ REP. JAMES R. LANGEVIN has introduced the Retain Innovation and Manufacturing Excellence Act to fund companies keeping retiring employees long enough to train the workers that will replace them. / COURTESY OFFICE OF JAMES R. LANGEVIN PROVIDENCE – Rep. James R. Langevin, D-R.I., introduced a bill to encourage companies to keep [...]
Published originally at https://pbn.com/mckee-launches-volunteer-economic-ambassadors-program LT. GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE announces the launch of the International Economic Ambassadors Initiative Tuesday. / COURTESY OFFICE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PROVIDENCE – Lt. Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced the launch of the International Economic Ambassadors Initiative Tuesday. The program will recruit volunteer Rhode Islanders who frequently travel outside of [...]
Published originally by nam.org The manufacturing industry, along with many others, will need a whole host of workers to handle new technologies in the 20th century . . . but those workers are in short supply. One option is to “reskill” existing workers, including older workers who have spent years or decades on outdated systems. [...]