SCC-C&CE joins AMTEC, the Automobile Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative to develop improved educational practices for the manufacturing workforce.
AMTEC is offering the most innovative vision for school capabilities and for partnering with the manufacturing industry.” –Dennis Parker, Toyota Manufacturing Kentucky.
Formed through a planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), AMTEC partners across seven states seek to prepare highly-skilled technicians and engineers for the automotive manufacturing industry. Changes in manufacturing and global marketing require changes in training from theory through hands-on manipulation:
1. Flexible manufacturing lines are able to produce multiple products with minimum time and cost required for changeover.
2. Quick and profitable response to fluctuating customer demand can produce “lot size of one” runs while realizing the efficiencies and cost benefits of mass production.
3. Green factory practices reduce emissions and landfill waste by increasing recycling supported by specialized manufacturing and environmental technicians.
4. Increasing use of electronics and computers in vehicles impacts the design and manufacture of parts and components from suppliers.
These manufacturing changes require changes and improvements in the education and training system to help current and future workers learn the required skills and knowledge. Because of the changes in the way work is done, growth in the industry, and retirements from an aging work force, skilled and knowledgeable workers for the automotive industry are in high demand.
The industry demands that all parts of the system must be able to achieve the same levels of quality, be innovative and continuously increase productivity to deliver more value for less cost. As a critical supplier and input to the auto manufacturing industry, the education and training community must meet or exceed these same expectations.
All current and future workers within the auto manufacturing industry are now expected to be multi-functional, learning and applying an ever-larger set of skills and knowledge. They are also expected to produce more output through the use of technology, and accomplish a higher level of quality, with more frequent changes.
Skills and knowledge must attain a level of performance that significantly exceeds that of only a few years ago. Workers need to update to the skill standards of industry in order for both the industry and the individual workers to be successful.
Each college is developing workshops to create, test and deliver the training needed through hybrid web-based and hands-on systems to:
- align existing course with industry-driven needs
- serve as state of the art teaching and learning centers
- operate as research and development for new instruction
- share materials and teaching strategies to other schools
- promote articulation and collaboration among secondary and higher education
- use multistate partnership to reduce costs and improve delivery
College Partners include
Alabama - CARCAM
Indiana - Ivy Tech Community College, Evansvelle & Vincennes University
Kentucky - Kentucky Community & Technical College System,
Jefferson Community & Technical College, Bluegrass Community &
Technical College
Michigan - Macomb Community College & Lansing Community College
Ohio - Owens Community College & Cuyahoga Community College
South Carolina- Spartanburg Community College
Tennessee - Pellissppi State Technical College
Texas - Alamo Community College District
Manufacturing Partners include
BMW, Spartanburg, SC
Capital Area Manufacturing Council (CSMC), Lansing, MI
Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, Louisville
Ford Louisville Assembly Plant, Kentucky
Ford Lima Engine Plan, Ohio
General Motors, Warren, MI
PBR Knoxville, LLC, Knoxville, TN
Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), Independence, OH
Rieter Automotive N. America Inc., Oregon, OH
Toyota North American Production Support Center, Georgetown, KY
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, San Antonio, TX
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Princeton, IN
UAW-GM Center for Human Resources, Detroit, MI
Webasto Roof Systems Inc., of Lexington and Murray, KY
Spartanburg Community College is proud to be a member of this proactive educational venture.
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