Manufacturing Tax Bonanza!

 

TEAMWerx

Innovators!  Here's a great business opportunity and a way to contribute to the effectiveness of our deployed troops.  TEAMWerx is a DoD sponsored effort to shorten the R&D development cycle in fielding new and critical military systems.  It's established basically as an open partnership between industry and the folks establishing system requirements. 

SOFWerx is their local Ybor City operation working directly with the military planners at Special Operations Command and Central Command at MacDill.  Deployed troops communicate their needs in terms of "force multipliers", that is, "Man if I had something that did this, this would be a piece of cake".  At that point the SOFWerx crew starts determining how best to approach the issue and often develop in-house prototypes for rapid deployment and assessment.  Then they look to find a path to larger scale production. That's where you come in.

Here are two opportunities for exploration and engagement.  Get on this right away as some deadlines are as early as January 5. :

NIMS Commitment to Apprenticeship

Here's an input from Montez King, Executive Director of NIMS on their commitment to and the value of apprenticeships.  Worth the read!  And, if you're ready to act, email me or call at 813 855-4233.

Dear Colleagues:     

As the developer of skills standards and credentials for the advanced manufacturing sector, NIMS is also focused on promoting careers in manufacturing and expanding education and training programs that prepare individuals for these good jobs.     

We are pleased to share with you two communications pieces released in the last few weeks that demonstrate NIMS' commitment to build a skilled workforce for the modern economy.      

Please feel free to share these pieces with your partners and networks.  Together, we can inspire and prepare more young people for today's and tomorrow's manufacturing careers.   

 

Best Regards,
Montez King

Plus check out Pinellas Technical Colleges Machine Apprenticeship Program. 

10-Basics of Back-to-Basics Manufacturing

Sub-Title: Put The HORSE Before The Cart 

You might find this an interesting and quick read to start 2018.  The premise is that the promise of LEAN, Six Sigma, various belts, ERP/MRP, automation, etc. fail to produce the desired and expected productivity and competitive improvements is that the basic model has not started with the core basics of the manufacturing process (or have slipped away from them) and you wind up putting the cart before the horse by trying to impose some valuable tools to a weak process.  Make a New Year's resolution to assess your fundamentals then make decisions on how to best improve the cart and the horse.  If you find you're ready to take a couple steps forward, please contact us and we'll line you up with folks that can assist in reaching your goals. Just click the title to access the article. 

Prosper Act

Earlier this month Rep Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce at a Career Source Pinellas and Career Source Tampa Bay hosted conference.  She provided insight into a recently passed act on which she has been working arduously - Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform Act or Prosper Act.

To say that Rep Foxx "gets it" is an understatement.  She noted how the current Higher Education Act has put students in overwhelming debt and has not led to career preparation.  In her remarks she correctly notes that ALL education is CAREER education and the purpose this Act is to push and enable the lifelong learning that is key to career success and innovation.  Read her complete statement  here.  Read  more on  the Prosper Act and the 'take' here.  

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Manufacturers Lead The List In Top 2017 Growth

Quick slide show from the Tampa Bay Business Journal listing the top Tampa Bay region winners and losers.  Click here.

Jobs Corner and Marketplace

Recruit Military Job Fair 

January 11 

Hiring

Career Source has some openings for instructors - retirees welcome FT or PT.  Help change the lack of skilled workers dilemma

• IT Instructor Programmer
• Mechatronics Robotics
• Soldering Mechatronics

• Assembler.  Medical, surgical, photonics 
• Manufacturing Technician Part Time Cardio Command 

Seeking

• Added some great new job seekers this month some highly experienced. 
• Patrick Morgan British National excellent background in project management, regulatory process. Performed at multi-national level. 
• Andrea Morgan British National over 20 years experience experience within the Parcels, Pallets, Logistics & Warehousing industry, for National Key Accounts / Customer Contract Management, New Business Sales and
  People Management, within Sales and Operational Environments.
• Abe Brown Ministries offers a tax credit if $2400 per hire and up to $5000 bonding at no cost to the employer.  The following candidates are covered by this program. 
• Three year welding experience, Oxy and Plasma, trainer, OSHA trained 
• Accomplished machinist over 14 years in team environment, extensive CNC background

We Do Round Tuits 

Association Update

 

We appreciate those of you that have joined either the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce or the Florida Suncoast 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 2017 and beyond!