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ANSI Accredits *Manufacturing Skills Standards Council* under Personnel Certification
Sacramento Bee
January 12, 2012
ANSI has announced accreditation of...
ANSI Accredits Manufacturing Skills Standards Council
Sacramento Bee
By American National Standards Institute
The MSSC is an industry-led training, ANSI has accredited two MSSC certification programs – the MSSC-Certified...
ANSI Accredits Manufacturing Skills Standards Council
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The MSSC is an industry-led training, assessment, and certification system...ANSI has accredited two MSSC certification programs – the
MSSC-Certified...
The pathway begins with the foundational Certified Logistics Technician (CLT) certification by the *Manufacturing Skill Standards Council* (MSSC)....
Lakewood Ranch High Teacher Named Manufacturing Secondary Educator or the Year
The Manufacturing Skills Standards Council Launches New 'Green...
Environmental Expert
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 18, 2011 /PR Newswire/ -- The Manufacturing Skills Standards Council (MSSC) today launched a new credentialing module dedicated to help...
With New Module, Workers Can Be Certified in Green Manufacturing
Industry Week
The Manufacturing Skills Standards Council has launched a new credentialing module to help train and assess manufacturing workers on industry-defined
The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing (PDF)
Workforce Success: Meet Kurt
Kurt was laid off in November of 2008 from Hamlin, Inc., a sensor technology company in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, after 13 years with the company. Even after months of searching, Kurt struggled to find another full-time, permanent position that matched his skill set and education. After trying the search on his own, he decided to stop by his local One-Stop Career Center in Jefferson, Wisconsin for help.
Kurt was seriously considering a career path in a different trade—potentially plumbing or electrical work, but after hearing from other local trades workers that open positions were sparse in his community, he opted to continue his search for industrial maintenance positions.
He continued working with his local One-Stop Career Center and enrolled in the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) program as a dislocated worker. As part of the program, Kurt was able to tap into additional employment and training resources. He polished his résumé and practiced his interviewing skills through workshops offered at the Job Center and his local technical college.
In spring 2009, Kurt’s WIA representative recommended he pursue a Manufacturing Skills Standards Council (MSSC) certification and also consider a unique training opportunity available for dislocated workers called ‘Career Academies.’* These short-term college-level courses would help Kurt ease back into school mode after 18 years. That summer, Kurt successfully earned 11 college credits through the training programs.
"It had been 18 years since I entered a classroom. The idea of going back to school was really intimidating at first. But the Career Academies were filled with other people my age and who were in a similar situation to mine. We helped each other out and adjusted together."
With confidence and college credits under his belt, Kurt decided to apply for the two-year Industrial Maintenance program at Madison Area Technical College. By his third semester of the program, Kurt was balancing a full-time course load at school with a new, part-time job at Clasen Quality Coatings —a confectionary company in Watertown, Wisconsin—all while trying to support and care for his family.
"At the time, I was committing 40 hours to my schoolwork and more than 20 hours to my new job. With 18-hour days, it was really hard to be away from my family. But I knew the end result would be worth it. Thankfully, my wife and two children were supportive of my decision to go back to school."
Two years later, during the week of graduation, Kurt was offered a full-time position at Clasen Quality Coatings. He accepted an Industrial Maintenance job that included a considerable salary increase. He also graduated from college with an outstanding 3.89 grade point average and is proud of his accomplishments.
"Honestly, it feels great to be back working after being out of work for more than two years. I’m working full-time again. And, I’m working close to home. This [challenge] has truly been a blessing in disguise."
Kurt attributes his success to the support he received not only from his family, but also from the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin and the Workforce Investment Act program.
"I just wanted to thank the Workforce Development Board for this opportunity and support. The staff were wonderful to work with and extremely supportive throughout my time in the program. I cannot thank them enough and I hope the program and funding continues to be available to help others like me."
SOURCE: http://www.wdbscw.org/component/content/article/198.html
President Obama announces initiative to expand US manufacturing
skills
President Obama announces initiative to expand
U.S. manufacturing skills ... impact," said Leo Reddy, Manufacturing
Skill Standards Council chief executive. ...
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Joins Effort to Reach President Obama's Goal of Credentialing ... SunHerald.com As one of the Founding Members of the national Manufacturing Skills ... the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council's (MSSC) Certified Production Technician ... |
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Fowler and 10 of his high school classmates earned their Manufacturing Skill Standards Council certification in June. /
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MSSC REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE APPLICANTS FOR THE $500 MILLION USDOL TAA SGA FUNDING
Many community colleges or consortia of community colleges will be responding to the U.S. Department of Labor’s January 20, 2011, Solicitation for Grant Announcement (SGA) for $500 million under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act (TAA SGA), which is focused on the attainment of “industry-recognized credentials.”
A community college wishing to include Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) industry-recognized, national credentials in its TAA SGA application should provide funds to cover the basic MSSC registration and assessment fees. If the college wishes to help students achieve higher pass rates on MSSC certifications, it should also include MSSC Instructor Training and MSSC learning materials acquisition costs.
These are all capacity building measures that can be covered under SGA grant funds. Fees for MSSC’s two certification systems--Certified Production Technician (CPT) and Certified Logistics Technician (CLT)--certification system tools may differ in certain instances, as noted below.
These MSSC requirements will be familiar to the some 400 MSSC-authorized Instructors and 200 MSSC-authorized Assessment Centers in 30+ states in the U.S., mostly at community colleges. If your school already has these MSSC infrastructure capabilities, you could use them as “leveraged resources” or “in-kind” under your TAA SGA grant application.
One-Time Registration:
A one-time registration fee is required for each individual wishing to take an MSSC assessment. This fee enables MSSC to maintain its national registry, prepare credentials, issue credentials, replace lost credentials, build its certificants’ data base, etc.
Fee: $60.00 for CPT
$60.00 for CLT
Assessments and Credentials:
There are four modular assessments for CPT: Safety; Quality Practices & Measurement; Manufacturing Processes & Production; and Maintenance Awareness. MSSC issues a Certificate for success in each module and a full CPT Certification for success in all four.
There are two modular assessments for CLT: Foundational-level (required for a Certified Logistics Associate—CLA—certificate) and mid-technical level (leading to a Certified Logistics Technician—CLT—Certification). CLA is a prerequisite for CLT.
All MSSC assessments are delivered on-line and immediately scored by NOCTI. MSSC has no hands-on testing requirements for credentialing.
For successful test-takers, MSSC issues certificates, lists of key work activities covered by the assessments, as well as arm patches and, for full CPT and CLT certificants, diploma-style certifications, larger arm patches, and wallet cards.
Fee: $40 per test-taker per module for both CPT and CLT
Assessment Center Authorization Training
MSSC offers its CPT and CLT assessments only at MSSC-authorized Assessment Centers. If your college does not have such as center and wishes to establish one, you will need to have MSSC Assessment Center Authorization Training for a fee to ensure that you meet MSSC test site requirements.
Fee: $500 for a single Center; $250 for a state-wide consortium.
Instructor Authorization Training
MSSC provides its learning materials (see below) only to education and training institutions that have an MSSC-authorized Instructor or that have purchased an “Instructor’s Package.” The TAA SGA includes instructor training costs.
CPT Instructor Training lasts three days and CLT Instructor Training lasts two days. CPT Instructors also need to be certified in any Module for which they provide instruction. CLT Instructors must also pass both CLA and CLT certification assessments. MSSC will send a Master Trainer without cost to any location where there are six or more instructor trainees. Otherwise, instructor trainees need to attend regular instructor training sessions in IN (for CPT) or in TX or PA (for CLT).
Fees: $2,200 for CPT Instructor Training. $1500 for CPT Instructors Package alone. $1800 for CLT Instructor Training. $1200 for CLT Instructors Package alone.
Learning Materials:
MSSC does not require that individuals taking MSSC certification assessments take MSSC courses. MSSC has, however, worked with curriculum developers to offer learning materials both to enhance knowledge and to improve success rates on the assessments. Since MSSC offers industry-recognized, industry-wide, national credentials, MSSC learning materials:
- Provide an excellent foundation for schools wishing to build a curriculum career pathway, adding other courses in manufacturing and logistics to meet area-specific industry needs.
- Provide individuals with an early opportunity to secure an MSSC credential.
Ways to access MSSC learning materials are noted below.
1. MSSC 5-Year E-learning Capacity-building Fee —
The TAA SGA authorizes community colleges to “adopt material” and “expand and improve” their ability to deliver training related to the attainment of industry-recognized credentials. This SGA also authorizes colleges to “enhance their IT infrastructure” and to “purchase class room supplies.”
In response to these provisions, the MSSC is providing a new, cost-effective way to access the state-of-the art, multimedia material that MSSC’s software developers have already created to improve success rates on both CPT and CLT certification assessments.
MSSC is offering to TAA SGA partners a single purchase access to the MSSC e-learning tools for 5 years at a 30-40% discount for both CPT and CLT, based upon anticipated use. This means that a large number of students under this SGA, can access the learning tools electronically for this period.
Fees: Dependent upon anticipated use. For pricing details, please contact Neil Reddy at reddyn@msscusa.org or at 703-739-9000, ext. 221.
2. Per Student Option—Those community colleges who do not anticipate sufficient student usage to warrant the 5-year capacity-building opportunity described above may elect to secure access MSSC learning materials on an individual student basis. MSSC offers “blended” courses (35-40 hours per module) to training organizations for CPT and CLT certification systems.
Fee: $130 per modular course per student for both CPT and CLT.
IT Setup Fees: Whether schools prefer the five-year unlimited five year access fee or the per student course structure, access to CPT computer-based training may require a one-time “Hybrid Solution” fee of $1000. Access to CLT computer-based training requires a one-time “Portal Setup” fee of $250.
3. Textbooks:
For CPT: While not a requirement, the MSSC recommends that all CPT trainees use as a reference a well-illustrated Glencoe McGraw-Hill/MSSC 444-page textbook, High-Performance Manufacturing: Portable Production Skills, to further understand the principles of advanced, high-performance manufacturing. All orders must be submitted directly to Glencoe McGraw-Hill (GMH). GMH is currently charging $62.50 for this text.
For CLT: MSSC provides a pdf version of its textbooks as part of the costs of both the CLA and CLT courses. Hard copy versions of the textbooks are available only to course subscribers at an additional charge of $30.
“Green” Note: The MSSC is currently working under a U.S. DOL grant to CWA-IUE to develop a new CPT Module for “Green Production.” The training and testing for this new Green Production Module (GPM) are scheduled to be available nationwide in July 2011.
MSSC is a proud member and a founding partner of the NAM-endorsed Skills Certification System.
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Want to help build planes? Program trains aircraft assemblers
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Students who demonstrate the required skill level earn the nationally recognized Manufacturing Skill Standards Council certifications in safety and quality
Manufacturing training grants increase
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TCC program helps unemployed learn new job skillsBy Star-Telegram The four-week [MSSC] training program will help push Dye and his classmates to the front of the employment line, said David Setzer, director of Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas. One reason: the certification, developed at Tarrant County College through a preceding grant, is the first of its kind in the nation... Program Teaches Production Techs « Small Biz Beat
St. Clair County Community Colleges' Workforce Training Institute offering a supply chain technologies program on the college's Port Huron campus September 2, 2010 When completed, students will be prepared to sit for the Manufacturing Skills Standards Council Certified Logistics Associate and Certified Logistics Technician exams, as well as the Internet and Computing Core Certification exam. Click here to read more about this exciting development.
NY State Workforce Investment Board seeking Certified MSSC personnel to assist with grant projectSeptember 2, 2010 Local Workforce Investment Boards seeking Certified Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) to coordinate and increase the Greater Capital Region's capacity to offer this training. For more information click here.
MSSC Seeks ANSI/ISO Accreditation "Who accredits or credentials MSSC?" As a credentialing body, MSSC is commonly asked, " Who credentials you?" MSSC is pleased to announce that we are in the "Full-Time" Application phase of the ANSI/ISO/17024 Accrediting process. For more information on ANSI and ISO Standards 17024, please visit the following links: List of ANSI "Full-Time" Applicants for 17024 Personnel Certification Bodies
Governor Doyle Announces $4.55 Million Investment in Worker Training
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Greenwood Today
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MSSC Certification - A Win-Win for Manufacturing Employers, Employees
FOXBusiness
COLUMBUS, Ind., March 5, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Several leading Southeast Indiana advanced manufacturing and distribution/logistics companies endorse the nationally recognized workforce credentials from the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC - http://www.msscusa.org) for those workers that will be hired as the economy recovers.
Free Advanced Manufacturing Training Program Unveiled
InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report
WorkOne and Ivy Tech Community College are partnering to offer unemployed and low-income Hoosiers across southeast Indiana free training in advanced manufacturing. WorkOne has received new funding to help people pursue Manufacturers Skills Standard Council production certification. The grant will pay for tuition, fees and books at Ivy Tech.
YouTube - Milwaukee Gear - MSSC Training at MATC
Milwaukee Gear chooses MATC to train their current and next-generation workers in MSSC (Manufacturing Skill Standards Council) certification.
North Texas Supply Chain Council - NTSCC.org
National and international interest has grown in the MSSC's CLA/CLT supply chain logistics certification program. Numerous national industry publications have been written and/or voiced support for this program.
WISinfo.com
The two-semester technical diploma program incorporates standards of the American Welding ... Association (FMA) and Manufacturing Skills Standards Council. ...
| Hope brightens holiday for woman seeking job Greenville News - Greenville,SC,USA In less than two weeks, Farmer expects to finish a course that will give her a nationally accepted certification from the Manufacturing Skills Standards ... |
SCC's Union branch hones skills for in-demand jobsSpartanburg Herald Journal - Gerry Pate - Spartanburg Community College soon will open its new Union County Advanced Technology Center, and will incorporate the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council's "Certified Production Technician (CPT)" certification system.... |
SNAP-ON INCORPORATED & THREE FOUNDATIONS PROVIDE GRANT FUNDS TO OFFER TRAINING IN THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM!
Snap-on Incorporated has joined the Harley-Davidson Foundation, the Johnson Controls Foundation, and the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Foundation to create a “tooling up for future careers” training and certification program for Milwaukee area high school teachers and students. This program will provide MSSC training to 8 Milwaukee public school teachers and 100 MPS students over a 2 year period. The MATC will coordinate the program.
To view the MATC Foundation Press Release:
http://matc.edu/matc_news/2009_MSSCTrainingInitiative.html
Video: Bison Gear Aims to Raise Worker Skill Standards
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Free Training for More Than 500 Jobs Openings Forecasted for Local ... Free MSSC Training for more than 500 job openings forecasted for local automotive suppliers in South Carolina. For additional information, or to register to attend an information session, contact the Workforce Investment Board at (864) 562-4168. |
| Alliance Hub to offer national logistics training program Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA “These training programs and certifications are the collective efforts of our industry partners, MSSC and Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas, ... |
Manufacturing skill standards may set workers apart...
“As a hiring manager, I’ve been able to interview with program folks and it works,” said John Taylor, senior manager of production operations at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth. “It’s been successful, prepares them for future needs and gives you a proven trained talent pool of respectable and driven people.”
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"A solution to these challenges is becoming a reality as a result of the work of the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC). The MSSC--an industry-led coalition of business, education and training providers; unions; and community-based organizations--is steadily making progress in developing tools that will help the Johns, Susans and Jacks make decisions that are right for them."
PTC to Offer Quick Jobs Training, MSSC Certification
Greenwood Today - Greenwood,SC,USA
Beginning in May, Piedmont Tech will offer an eight-week Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) Assessment Certificate Program designed for people ...
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"Recently, ACTE, NASDCTEc and the American Association for Community Colleges sent a joint letter to President Obama requesting an increase in Perkins funding. The letter included broad support from 45 additional organizations including businesses such as Apple Inc., Syngenta, John Deere and First Technologies. The letter also included signatures of eight Career and Technical Student Organizations; and other organizations such as the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council, which focuses on the core skills and knowledge needed by the nation's production workers."
NAM Receives Gates Job Grant
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“Moving these industry-recognized skills certifications into community college ... to implement the NAM-endorsed Manufacturing Skills Certification System. ...
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