Warrensburg Manufacturing Day Planned for Thursday
Manufacturing Day (MFG Day) is a celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. It is designed to show students, parents, educators, and their communities that manufacturing in the 21st century is often clean, high-tech, fast-paced, and involves the production of advanced products that we use every day.
The Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce has hosted Manufacturing Day for several years and looks forward to sharing this information with local students again this year. "Students and teachers were surprised by the range of career pathways and technology brought together to facilitate success in a large business," said David Richner, Integrated Academics Instructor, Warrensburg Area Career Center.
Recent studies by the Manufacturing Institute (MI) revealed that although the manufacturing industry is viewed as increasingly important to the economy, public perceptions of the industry are not in line with the current reality.
The progressively high-tech nature of manufacturing is providing cutting-edge and transferable skills to its employees and establishing forward-thinking, engaging, and digitally enabled work as the norm. Over the next decade, four million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled in the U.S. These job openings will be in high-skilled, high-tech positions and leadership positions.
Across the country, organizations are hosting their own MFG Day events to show students and the community what modern manufacturing looks like.
With over 2,600 events across 50 states and an estimated 400,000-plus students, parents and community members attending, the event strives to diversify and strengthen the modern manufacturing workforce, furthering individual opportunity, community prosperity, and a more competitive manufacturing industry.
The event will take place at the four plants -- Swisher Acquisition Inc, 1602 Corporate Drive; Enersys Products, 617 North Ridgeview; Dollar Tree Distribution Center, 304 NE 200 Road; and Alstom Signaling Operation, LLC., 609 North Enterprise.
For more information about Manufacturing Day in Warrensburg, Missouri, please contact Suzanne Taylor at the Chamber office at (660) 747-3168 or email staylor@warrensburg.org.
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