Industrial Equipment And Employment Generation4

Industrial Equipment And Employment Generation

Whenever mention of industrial equipment is made, it is in the same breath with large industries or excellent engineering colleges. Today there seems to be a new addition to that list: industrial training. This focuses not on the upper crust, elite employable graduate youth, which by the way form only about 27% of the total youth mass, but on the 73% that is left. Industrial training courses with hands-on experience on machine tools and wood, metal and automatic lathes can enable these youths to get jobs and direction in their lives.

There is a way out. These school and college drop outs can find employment if they get skill-based and vocational training and this is where the use of industrial equipment comes in. The concept is to set up industrial training centers where such youth would be taught hands on to work on automatic lathes, material handling and other things that would help them in getting appropriate placement in industries. In this way, the energy of these youth would find a channel towards positive outcome instead of imminent doom.

This is a wonderful concept which has withstood the acid test wherever it was tried, whether this was in poor countries or developed ones. The success is attributed to the fact that this industrial training which is not as expensive as a degree program, offers these unemployable youths a professional identity and recognition. A simple training course on the lathe machine or cnc mills can turn a aimless youth into a skilled and in demand professional. In this way the industrial equipment used in such training provide a new life to young people who would otherwise might not have an industry to go into.

Efforts have always been focused on finding placement for the elite graduate class, because they are employable. What about the bottom of the pyramid? A simple training course in handling different industrial machinery can become a turning point in the lives of millions such young people who feel they are no good for any well-paying job or for any particular profession. The need of the day, if you look at the statistics, is not finding jobs for the upper crust but generating employment for college dropouts and those not attending college, for a better and safer tomorrow. Therefore, using industrial laboratories or training centers where industrial equipment can make the difference between skilled and unskilled labor is something worth thinking about.