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Welcome to Upper Tampa Bay Manufacturers Association
Your One Source Newsletter For All Things Manufacturing
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Robotic Design Challenge:
March 18
Our May meeting will take a little different form. We are joining with BAMA and St. Petersburg College to provide information on some upcoming Summer Youth Robotic Design and 3-D printing challenge camps. The camps are aimed at middle and high school and have an aggressive curriculum including learning Solid Works and CAD to design a functional robotic vehicle. Engage in 3-D printing and additive manufacturing as well as the entrepreneurial skills needed in the business world. The program includes plant tours and that's where you can come in. The goal is to expose and engage our manufacturers in these camps as mentors. This program has worked well with large manufacturers but we believe it will be increasingly valuable with our manufacturing base as we work to develop our future workforce. Join us Wednesday, May 18, 8-9:30 am at the St. Petersburg College Clearwater Campus, 2465 Drew Street, Room ES104.
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Do You Know About the Lion and the Gazelle?
There's a story that you may have heard:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
In most business settings, the same can be said: we are all running - to continue to improve, to be more efficient, innovative, and relevant to our customers. Read more...
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Made In Hillsborough
The Manufacturing Alliance of Hillsborough County is officially launched! We are a county-wide initiative, raising the profile of the Hillsborough County manufacturing sector. It's our goal to prepare students and adults to fill the needs of this growing industry while connecting them with rewarding careers. Our kickoff event on April 7 at the Tampa Bay Tech High School was a huge success, and we are poised and ready to build the industry that is building our world, right here in Hillsborough County.
Check it out!
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Interested In Exporting? Great Webinar!!!
Taking the plunge into exporting can be daunting - but we're here to help.
Interested in going global? You don't have to go it alone.
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Vision Without Execution Is Hallucination
Here is an excellent article on Lean written by James Sandfield the Lean Manager for Europe at Nestle. This is "all you need to know" in a well referenced, concise package. I like his definition for it's incisiveness and practicality:
"Lean is a way of thinking and doing to achieve your goals, with the customer in mind, and the minimum waste possible. Lean respects the needs of every stakeholder and ensures continually improved sustainable benefit for all of them."
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| Things That Make You Go Hmmm????
Quick hitters! Information is the currency that fuels democracy ...Thomas Jefferson...and business. What you don't know CAN HURT YOU! More on advanced manufacturing and technologies. 3-D printing keeps pushing the envelope along with robotics. Of course the administration is issuing more regulations to make it interesting. Keep in touch here...
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Time Savers
Here are links to additional information on various important topics
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Jobs and Training Corner
Below is a variety of information on job seekers and employment opportunities:
Seeking
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Transition Veteran Employment Tours (T-VETs)
Veterans and transitioning service members have many desirable traits that can enhance your workforce: commitment, discipline, loyalty, teamwork and training. But do they really understand what goes on in a manufacturing facility? Do they recognize that their military experience in logistics, mechanical systems, operations, IT, communications, and even administrative tasks, can contribute to the manufacturing environment?
With your help, the answer is yes,
see you how you can get involved click here
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Florida TRADE Partnerships
It's the SMART Choice. Click here to see why! Help us help you! The 13 Florida TRADE grant colleges have will set out to place 1,000 students in non-clinical internships. You can also access permanent placements through this program. Saint Petersburg College, Pasco Hernando State College and Hillsborough Community College are all involved in this program. And they have reorganized their website to make this clean and painless. Join the Drive to 1000 today!
It's literally as easy as 1,2,3:
- If you want more information about a specific college
- If you want to see all available interns
- f you want to see info on permanent placement opportunities
For SPC access click here to sign up to host an intern, and here to post a job on their SPC job board! Click here for the current SPC Newsletter. For Pasco Hernando State College job posting use this link.You can visit the PHSC Trade website here. Please forward this email to your colleagues who might also be interested
Another way to broaden the search pool is Career Source's Intern website. Here you can post opportunities and draw from a regional pool of interns in a variety of career fields...and sometimes offset the cost of hiring too. Click here.
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Association Update
We appreciate those of you that have joined either the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce or the Upper Tampa Bay Manufacturers Association. We request that you consider formal membership at this point. We are attaching a brochure outlining the service activities we provide as well as an application form. We appreciate your consideration and support and look forward to advancing the cause of manufacturing in the Upper Tampa Bay in 2015 and beyond!
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| Manufacturers Association Resource Guide At the roundtable we heard many comments along the lines of 'I didn't know that', 'I wish I would have know that' and how do find out about that'. So we have developed a resource guide which will have a permanent spot on this newsletter to try and help out. This is a 'work in progress' so any suggestions on making it more robust and useful are welcome. Access the guide by clicking here. |
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| Why An Association ?
- We host nearly 20% of Florida Manufacturers
- Build and sustain a world class workforce
- Develop new markets, products and services
- Leverage state and federal grants and incentives
- Improve business practices
- We can be stronger together with a common voice
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| Who Is Involved?
- Manufacturers
- Manufacturers
- Manufacturers
- Key Elected Officials
- Florida Makes
- Regional Economic Development Agencies
- Regional Workforce Agencies
- Regional Colleges and Schools
- UTB Chamber
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| TRADE Partners Needed Our TRADE partner colleges need your help as in several capacities:
- Share your expertise
- Hire qualified employees and interns
- Encourage prospective students to explore a manufacturing career
You can make a difference!
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| Manufacturing Consultants Here are some links to local business consultants you may find useful. Gil Pinney Huttlin Associates Synapse-Sync |
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