Help Wanted: Metrology Jobs are in Demand

The U.S. Department of Labor reported 13.9 million unemployed Americans in July 2011, and even the creation of 117,000 jobs last month didn’t put a dent in the 9.1-percent unemployment rate. In fact, there has been little change in the unemployment rate since December 2010. So why am I repeating these depressing statistics? As bad as this may sound, we are much better off compared to the climb to more than 10-percent unemployment last year.

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Software Company Executive Believes Digital Tools, Techniques Will Shape Manufacturing's Future.

Technology Review (7/29, Simonite) reports that Autodesk, a California-based software company "is betting that" digital tools and techniques, such as 3-D printing, "will have an increasingly powerful role in what happens on factory floors, enabling manufacturers to embrace more flexible strategies that deliver more customized products." Buzz Kross, who is in charge of Autodesk's manufacturing industry group, "says that rising costs in China's maturing economy and high-profile problems with out-sourced components, like those that plagued Boeing's 787, are making the model of high-volume, low-cost outsourced production less economically attractive.
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