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turning center and vertical machining center to GW Lisk to support their program which addresses the shortage of skilled machinists in the Northeast region. “The shortage of skilled machinists hurts not only manufacturers, but companies that supply high-tech machine tools as well,” Lee said, adding: “Manufacturers are hesitant to buy equipment if they can’t be sure they will have employees to operate it.”
Events
The third annual Women in Manufacturing (WiM) SUMMIT will be held Oct. 22–23 in Dearborn, MI. The conference will feature manufacturing plant tours, educational tracks, best practices panels, roundtable discussions, keynote presenta- tions and social events to expand your network of women in the industry. Nearly 300 participants with titles ranging from production to CEO are expected to attend. A tour of the GM Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Plant is slated for Oct. 22, and Robert Rasmussen of LEGO Serious Play has been confirmed
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as one of the keynote speakers. Visit the WiM website at www.
womeninmanufacturing.org for ongoing updates. Contact Kris- tin Davis at 216-901-8800 or
kdavis@pma.org with questions or suggestions.
Awards
The Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI; Colorado Springs, CO), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI; Washington, DC), announced May 17 that Wil- liam M. Heenan, Jr. is the recipient of the 2013 Steel Market Development Institute Lifetime Achievement Award. Heenan was president of the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) from 1990 until December 2010, when he retired after nearly 40 years of service in the steel industry. The SMDI Lifetime Achieve- ment Award, established in 2004, recognizes steel industry professionals who have made significant contributions over the course of their careers to advancing the competitive use of steel in the marketplace.
Johnson Controls Automotive Seating (Plymouth, MI), a global leader in automotive seating and seat components, was recognized by Manufacturing Executive, a global associa- tion for manufacturing executives, with its Manufacturing Leadership 100 (ML100) Award in the Global Value Chain category. Johnson Controls was honored for implementing a new business initiative that integrated logistics and operational processes across its plants using Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) software.
Anniversaries
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Throughout the year, and culminating at the FABTECH 2013 Expo in Chicago, Victor Technologies (St. Louis, MO) will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of its Victor brand of cutting and gas control equipment. Victor’s founder, L.W. Stettner, suffered the loss of an eye in a welding accident and set out to design and build safer products for cutting and welding. Today, Victor Technologies provides solutions for cutting, gas control and specialty welding equipment under brand names that include Victor, VictorThermal Dynamics, VictorArcair, VictorTurboTorch, Tweco, Thermal Arc, Stoody, Firepower and Cigweld. Visit
www.victortechnologies.com/vic- tor100 for anniversary details. NewsDesk is edited by Editor-in-Chief Sarah A. Webster. Please email NewsDesk submissions to
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