The Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association (WWEMA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the selection of Claudio Ternieden, J.D.
WWEMA Window: The New Face Of Manufacturing
Like many of you, I have recently been listening to and participating in many webinars and reading articles about the current challenges facing the manufacturing community supply chain disruptions, material price escalations, workforce safety issues, market uncertainties and volatility, etc. One of the more difficult challenges focuses on worker shortages and the inability to find the right people with the right skills.
Before I continue with this article, I think it important to provide a couple of key pieces of information for context: 1) I was in school in the ’60s and ’70s, and college and graduate school in the early ’80s; and 2) I am a scientist. I say that not to date myself but to better frame my experience and perspective. In school we studied the industrial revolution and learned that it changed the way things were made as new machines invented in the 1700s and 1800s meant it was possible to mass produce goods in fact