Hello, TylerRobertson,
It is really nice to see you posts here. I would like to talk about the topic very much. As a 1 year graduate (automation and robotics program) college student in Canada, I was one of few people involved in manufacturing, actually troubleshooting on the floor for the production, you know why my classmates hate to do this job in Canada? when I first started as a automation and robotics technician in the production enviroment company, no training, no orientation, no anything to tell you, 2 weeks later, they put me right away in the midnight shift, and work alone, you know what happened after 4 months. Tell you the truth, I don't even know some spare parts stock yet.
And the senior guy in some company gave the new guy shit when they started, so, some graduates got frustrated, stressful, and later on, they are tired of the job. also, the production team keep dealing with the new technician in Canada(at least in Toronto), lots of young technician got killed when they started their career, you know what, in the past 1 year, horribly, I changed 4 jobs, only 1 job, yeah, only 1, I resigned for the better one, the rest of the 2, I just couldn't continue, so many nightmare stuff happened to me. When we started, we got less pay, but the company management do not care about it, you let the machine down longer, you got fired, so many similiar cases happened in the manufacturing field, last month, my manager was fired due too much downtime, sigh!
Early adoption of emerging, and innovative use of already available, technology. In Canada, the human factor is a great one, and I think the more we can remove ourselves from processes, the more we can compete with a leading edge.
I'm not so familiar with the workforce right now, and how hard it is to find technically capable people in manufacturing - but coming out of the Canadian educational system, I found there wasn't much of a push towards gearing up young people to pursue jobs and excel in the manufacturing industry.
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