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SALT LAKE CITY — For many people, a four-year degree isn’t always an option, but a new program launched this week aims to fill 40,000 jobs that require different qualifications.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert announced a $2.1 million grant from the Utah Cluster Acceleration Partnership that will help the Talent Ready Utah program.

“We’re trying to figure out a way to fill 40,000 high-paying positions that are out there right now, but we don’t have qualified workers to fill them,” said Vale Hale, Executive Director of the Governors Office for Economic Development.

The program will give people the skills they need to fill those high-paying positions.

“We have opportunities for high school students, to actually get involved with some of these companies—work based learning,” Hale said. “And when they graduate as a senior, they have a certificate and they’re eligible to go to work.”

The training focuses on 170 programs called industry-education partnerships. The idea started out with the Aerospace Pathways Program.

Since that initial program, life sciences, diesel tech, the construction industry and many others have jumped on board.

“They really like the model, the template, that we have, and so they’re trying to duplicate it for their industries,” Hale said.

Nathan Rose says four-year colleges have always seemed a little overwhelming, so he decided to try out the Aerospace Pathways Program at Salt Lake Community College.

He plans to take a seven-week course that will give him the basic skills for a career in making airplane parts.

“I hope to have a career, something I can support a

Article source: http://fox13now.com/2017/03/26/program-hopes-to-fill-40000-utah-jobs-that-dont-require-4-year-degrees/

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Natilus, a startup firm from Richmond, California, will be putting a prototype cargo drone through its paces this summer, in the hope of launching a version capable of carrying 200,000lbs of cargo.

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/index.html

Michele C. D’Alessandro, VP and CIO, Manufacturing IT, Merck [NYSE:MRK]

The manufacturing world is undergoing its fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, spurred by the proliferation of digital capabilities (Internet of Things), and the integration of these capabilities into existing production and supply systems. Although there are skeptics of the Industry 4.0 movement, one cannot ignore technology’s impact on the way manufacturers—including those in the pharmaceutical industry—conduct business.

While the marriage of the physical world of pharmaceutical manufacturing and the cyber world is complex and challenging, it is also exciting for anybody fortunate enough to focus on it. A multitude of technology advances are being heralded at an increasing rate. Non-traditional firms are entering the manufacturing IT space, offering innovative and next generation options. Pharma manufacturing technology professionals are pressured to innovate and adopt in order to get a leg up on the competition, grow their industry positions, or, at the very least, ensure they don’t lag behind.

The following disruptive trends are a source of great opportunity—as well as challenge—for those in Pharma IT:

1. Additive manufacturing driving innovation

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, creates physical objects based on a digital model by “printing” (applying) materials in successive layers. This digital technology has produced the likes of airplane engine parts, medical/dental implants, custom prosthetics, and even innovative product designs not previously possible. It is already leveraged in manufacturing across consumer goods, art, fashion and the like. And with the advances in material science, alloys and composites, the revolutionary potential across

Article source: http://supply-chain.cioreview.com/cxoinsight/disruptive-trends-in-manufacturing-it-nid-24049-cid-78.html

SALT LAKE CITY — For many people, a four-year degree isn’t always an option, but a new program launched this week aims to fill 40,000 jobs that require different qualifications.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert announced a $2.1 million grant from the Utah Cluster Acceleration Partnership that will help the Talent Ready Utah program.

“We’re trying to figure out a way to fill 40,000 high-paying positions that are out there right now, but we don’t have qualified workers to fill them,” said Vale Hale, Executive Director of the Governors Office for Economic Development.

The program will give people the skills they need to fill those high-paying positions.

“We have opportunities for high school students, to actually get involved with some of these companies—work based learning,” Hale said. “And when they graduate as a senior, they have a certificate and they’re eligible to go to work.”

The training focuses on 170 programs called industry-education partnerships. The idea started out with the Aerospace Pathways Program.

Since that initial program, life sciences, diesel tech, the construction industry and many others have jumped on board.

“They really like the model, the template, that we have, and so they’re trying to duplicate it for their industries,” Hale said.

Nathan Rose says four-year colleges have always seemed a little overwhelming, so he decided to try out the Aerospace Pathways Program at Salt Lake Community College.

He plans to take a seven-week course that will give him the basic skills for a career in making airplane parts.

“I hope to have a career, something I can support a

Article source: http://fox13now.com/2017/03/26/program-hopes-to-fill-40000-utah-jobs-that-dont-require-4-year-degrees/

TOKYO –  After three decades building an airplane from scratch, Michimasa Fujino, 56, chief engineer of the Hondajet, might have to reach a ripe old age to see Honda Motor Co’s 7267.T pet aviation project recoup its development costs.

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Honda has declined to reveal the costs, but the automaker has been researching aircraft development since 1986, and Richard Aboulafia, vice president of analysis at aerospace consulting firm Teal Group, thinks it has likely spent roughly $1 billion on the jet program since the early 2000s – more than double the $400 million typical for similar jets.

A five-year delivery delay and developing its own engine bumped up the bill.

The company that gave the world the Honda Civic, which revolutionized compact cars in the United States in the 1970s, is betting its $4.5 million dollar, six-seater light business jet, the first aircraft developed by an automaker since World War Two, will expand the fuel-efficient private jet market.

The jet began deliveries in late 2015 and is priced slightly higher than competitors in the conservative light businessjet segment.

“The biggest mistake people make when getting into the aircraft business is (thinking) that the cash hemorrhaging ends once you start delivering aircraft,” said Aboulafia.

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“But very often, it increases,” he said, citing marketing and production ramp-up costs.

Fujino, CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, has said he expects it will take at least five years to start generating profits, and Aboulafia thinks it could take much longer

Article source: http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/03/27/honda-faces-long-haul-to-recoup-jet-costs.html