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Bison
Gear & Engineering Corp. and College of DuPage Announce
Graduation of Manufacturing Skill Standards Council
Students
St.
Charles, IL - April 16,
2008 -
Bison
Gear and College of DuPage are excited to announce the 1st
graduation for the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council
(MSSC) certificate students on May 9, 2008 at the Bison Gear
headquarters in St. Charles. Festivities will begin at
1:00 p.m., including a tour of the Bison Manufacturing
facility and a Job Fair with local manufacturing
companies.
The MSSC
program was created in a collaborative effort
with manufacturers, industry, government, educators and
communities in order to deploy a simple, effective solution
that would provide a path for young adults, adults and
displaced workers to acquire the core skills needed by
manufacturing companies. This certification program
offers the skill sets needed by manufacturers and assists with
the shortage of finding qualified labor in the
manufacturing industry. The program benefit is it is
easily accessible and quickly
acquirable.
Many
organizations and leaders have endorsed the program and
see the value in getting the message out to the
public. CBS Evening News did a feature about Bison called
"Hard Times, Good Jobs" in March discussing the challenges
that Bison and other Manufacturing organizations have relating
to the shortage of finding qualified labor and the solution
being implemented with College of DuPage regarding the
MSSC.
MSSC
classes meet for 12 weeks with a curriculum ranging from;
applied math and manufacturing practices, blueprint reading,
hand tool usage, and employment, life and safety skills.
Participants must be at least 18 years old, be legal residents
and meet qualification
assessments.
The
next class begins at College of DuPage, August 20, 2008.
Contact Donna Claffy at claffy@cod.edu or 630-942-2135 for
information about the program or to register. Funding should
be available for fall term for the first 50 students accepted
into the
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About
Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.
Founded
in 1960, Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. designs and
manufactures fractional horsepower electric motors, gearmotors
and gear reducers used in industrial and commercial OEM
applications worldwide. Bison's strong engineering
tradition, based on Robusticity (TM) principles, offers
products with up to twice as much torque in the same package
as competitors. Bison employees over 250 associates in
its St. Charles, IL facility which produces gearmotors and
reducers in parallel shaft and right angle configurations, as
well as AC & DC motors, for applications where
dependability and long lifetimes are
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