"This generation is industrious, ambi-tious and they want to move ahead. They will make an absolutely amazing manufacturing workforce." Deanna Postlewaite, business unit manager for Lincoln Electric Virtual Welding Training, is talking about millennials, an enormous group of more than 80 million young people. It is often defined as the demographic cohort born from 1982 through 2000. Postlewaite manages Lincoln Electric's efforts to connect with young people through a welding training system that has aspects of a video game. Schools, unions and other training facilities can use the company's VRTEX 360 to provide budding welders with training on various welding technologies in virtual environments that range from process piping in a power plant to iron work on a high-rise building site.
展开▼
