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Expanded CEWS program good news for Canadians
The new CEWS will be both broader in reach and more targeted to help ensure that more workers can return to their jobs quickly as the economy restarts.
Who will save Canada's skilled-trades jobs?
If governments and traditional school systems are incapable of helping, then it’s up to the industry itself to solve the skilled-trades shortage.
Resetting the front line
A recent survey from Harvard Business Review found that empowered front-line workers are more productive and flexible.
Don’t let uncertainty feed the fear of manufacturing’s future
We should put as much focus as we can on the now. That means facing the boogeyman called COVID-19.
What are your company’s safety values?
Because so many aspects of work in a manufacturing facility are affected by safety, having it be a part of your company’s core beliefs and culture is imperative
Manufacturing in the age of COVID-19
Burloak Technologies, which is best known for its work in the aerospace sector, sent an open letter to global manufacturers of respiratory systems and health-care providers offering to help.
Put the service in customer service
Common manufacturing technology is making it easier than ever to create and maintain positive customer relationships.
Canadian parts-makers take centre stage at CES
Association/education/industry partnerships are idea incubators that will drive new growth at a time when it is desperately needed.
When do you run uncoated?
An insert with a very smooth coating and a mirror-like surface finish usually prevents the phenomenon of built-up edge when cutting aluminum.
Technology Spotlight: Hybrid machining centre
New machine combines additive manufacturing using a powder nozzle and turn/mill machining in one work area.
The future is now for Canadian manufacturing
As manufacturing workers evolve, they will require more technical skills, not fewer, and this requirement has the ability to widen an already too wide skills gap.
2019 Next-Gen Manufacturing Leaders
In this issue of Canadian Metalworking we are introducing you to a few of the industry’s next generation of manufacturing leaders who will keep work – and jobs – in Canada.
Running a manufacturing business in the gig economy
Because the manufacturing sector is having such trouble finding workers to fill full-time jobs, the gig economy could be a way to solve this problem, at least on a project-by-project basis.
Canadian manufacturing needs a brain, heart, courage
It’s time for our elected officials to realize the power (and the votes) that 1.7 million Canadians wield and fix a sector that is languishing behind other industrialized nations in innovation and technology adoption.
Canadian manufacturing needs more female workers
A look at 2016 census data shows that only 16 per cent of workers in the major metalworking industries are female. This is despite the fact that women make up more than 47 per cent of the total labour force.
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