How Automation Can Be Used as an Employee Development Platform and Cost-Saving Tool in the New “Difficult-To-Hire-And-Retain” World

by Aaron Phipps, MPI, Inc.

Introduction: The current business landscape is highly competitive, and organizations are struggling to hire and retain employees with the right skills and attitude.

At MPI, we have experienced similar challenges finding talented individuals who have the aptitude to learn the skills required for our wax room pattern injection and pattern assembly business.

Historically, the wax room has been considered a low-pay training-intensive department, making it challenging to retain employees who are satisfied doing these tasks as a career. Training to make manual assemblies used to take 3-6 months to produce high quality, repeatable assemblies. Along the way there were high scrap rates and lost opportunities. Through automation, however, we were able to transform this department into a lower-skill entry-level high-value-added position, attracting employees who are enticed by working with technology.

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Click the below video of MPI President, Aaron Phipps’ presentation at the 2023 ICI Technical Conference & Expo