MT Magazine May/June 2023

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Emerging Technologies Require Continuous Life-Learning and More BY GREG JONES VICE PRESIDENT, SMARTFORCE DEVELOPMENT Many of you have probably heard me say that in the year that I was born, my dad was

an apprentice at a small tool and die manufacturing shop in small town Ohio. Our family eventually had four children, and so when it came time to make a career change, Dad went to work at what used to be known as Fisher Body at the GM assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.

Dad would go on to enter GM’s management program for tool and die supervisors at what is now