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Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Lean 101 Workshop
WTC Lean 101 Workshop conducted by Arkansas Manufacturing Solutions in January 2011.
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Lean 101 Workshop
Colson Caster and Alberto Culver (now Unilever) participated in the Lean 101 Workshop.
Lean 101 Workshop
Charley Appleby of AMS provides direction during the Lean 101 Workshop.
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Lean 101 Workshop
The Lean 101 Workshop had 51 participants and received rave reviews!
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Lean 101 Workshop
The Lean 101 training included learning to work together to create an efficient process flow.
Lean 101 Workshop
Employees from nine different companies worked together to build a mock company's production process.
Tek Starz
Jonesboro's Summer Manufacturing Camp, exposes students to the wonderful world of manufacturing!
Lean 101 Workshop
The Lean 101 Workshop was the first of a series of classes designed to introduce employees to the Lean concept.
Lean 101 Workshop
ASU Technical Center hosted the WTC Lean 101 training in January 2011.
Lean 101 Workshop
Bill Kraus of AMS provided feedback to 51 participants in the Lean 101 Workshop that was offered by the WTC.
WTC Welding Classes
A welding student learns how to do SMAW (stick) welding.
WTC Welding Classes
A student practices oxy-acetylene welding.
Mechatronics Trainer
Instructor Bobby Smith explains the Mechatronics trainer at the ASU Technical Center to Frito-Lay managers.
Industrial Training
Practicing on repairing motors for industrial machinery.
Industrial Training
Student practicing on industrial wiring.
Industrial Training
Students practice on the industrial electrical circuitry trainer at the WTC.
Industrial Training
Student learning how to utilize a tape measure for industrial applications.
Industrial Training
Student preparing to cut metal using welding equipment.
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Talk Business & Politics, April 5, 2016: Jonesboro’s Best Manufacturing, a custom sheet metal fabricator of steel and aluminum products, has been acquired by Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (NYSE: RS). The Los Angeles-based metals service center company purchased all of Best’s capital stock in an undisclosed transaction.
Reliance has a network of more than 300 locations in 39 states and 12 countries outside of the United States. It provides value-added metals processing services and distributes a full line of over 100,000 metal products to more than 125,000 customers in a broad range of industries.
Best Manufacturing will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary following the April 4 announcement, and current management will remain in place.
“Best Manufacturing complements Reliance’s existing service center network extremely well given its specialty high margin products and value-added processing capabilities coupled with its strong focus on customer service,” said Gregg Mollins, president and CEO of Reliance. “Best Manufacturing is known as a one-stop source for superior quality products and has a very good reputation in the markets it serves. We are very pleased to have Best Manufacturing join the Reliance family of companies.”
Jonesboro-based Best Manufacturing has been in business since 1990, with core customers in the trucking, agriculture and energy sectors. The company provides various precision fabrication services, including laser cutting, shearing, CNC punching, CNC forming and rolling, as well as welding, assembly, painting, inventory management and engineering expertise. In 2015, Best Manufacturing’s net sales were approximately $20 million. |
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Take a look at the offerings for Lean 101, Statistical Processing Controls (SPC) and Training Within Industry (TWI). All three classes are one day each and are scheduled in October and November. Great opportunity to enhance your employees' lean education and put training into practice! |
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The WTC's Supervisory Series begins on Thursday, September 3, 2015, and continues each Thursday through November 19, 2015. Effective Communication, Leading Successful Teams and Creativity, Innovation and Continuous Improvement are just a few modules of this well regarded series. Call Maria Beth Bedwell at ASUN to register or for more information. She can be reached at 870.680.8702 or at maria_bedwell@asun.edu. |
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Call Maria "Beth" Bedwell at ASUN if you need to schedule computer classes like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can reach Maria at 870.680.8702 or at maria_bedwell@asun.edu. |
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What Our Members Say...
The WTC has provided great training at a reasonable cost. This is a value to our company whether we are training 1 employee or many.The ability to help develop curriculum, assures our employees are getting the skill development we need to be competitive.
..... Riceland Foods, Inc.
Arkansas Glass is a huge advocate of the WTC. We use the Lean manufacturing and supervisory training series, and other training. We can see a difference in our employees – we’ve always tried to offer them training, but we really see a positive change in their behavior when we teach them a new skill. We also take advantage of grant money that is available.
.....Arkansas Glass Container Corporation
Southworth Products has been a long time member of the WTC and as members, we have reaped many benefits from its training opportunities. Many of the training opportunities have allowed our employees to hone their skills and to learn new skills that have not only improved their job performance, but have increased their value as an employee as well. We have also found that employee morale and job satisfaction have improved when we as a company are willing to invest our time and resources into training. The WTC has been an invaluable tool in that process.
.....Southworth Products
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