Material Handling Equipment Donations Create Hands-On Experience for Career & Technical Education Students
It’s the problem on everyone’s mind. Getting a trained, or at least trainable supply chain workforce is a problem; retaining them is just as hard. We had multiple sessions on it recently at the 2017 MHI Annual Conference.
In an article on this very topic in the October Edition of Material Handling Network, MHI member Hänel, also a member of the MHI Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) Industry Group, was featured because they donated one of their systems, a Rotomat storage carousel, to Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. The school has a Logistics Education department and will use the system to prepare high school graduates for entry in the supply chain workforce.
But that’s not the only system they donated. Another Rotomat system was donated to Vincennes University (Plainfield, IN) to be used in the Logistics Training & Education Center.
Donations like this allow students to get real-world experience with technologies they will potentially be using. The added bonus for companies? Hands-on experience means less training time.
The donations were facilitated through MHI’s Career & Technical Education (CTE) program, and Hänel has a history of making donations like this. Hänel and other MHI member companies also generously donate resources and sponsorship for other MHI CTE programs like Student Days at our MODEX and ProMat tradeshows, where students are exposed to the solutions of over 850+ exhibitors in a guided, hands-on experience.
You can read the full article at http://mhnetwork.com/news/how-can-the-material-handling-industry-attract-talent-start-at-an-early-age/ and learn more about MHI’s CTE program at http://www.mhi.org/cte.
