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Last week, we covered the Top 5 Reasons to Train Your Employees and now it’s time to discuss how to get the most out of their training. You’re making a big investment when you carve out time and money to send your employees to training. It’s important to get the most out of it and here are some things to consider. What is your plan for training your employees? Do you have specific goals in [...]
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The biggest, and likely most obvious, reason to train your employees is that it increases their productivity and quality through increased abilities. Training ROI on an employee can be equal to, or better than, a monetary pay raise while building confidence and commitment. Training increases employee morale, motivation, and creativity. Believing in your employees enough to send them to training gives them a sense of belonging and worth, which increases morale, motivation and creativity. Be [...]
When you are looking for a way to make very functional FDM parts look closer to being traditionally manufactured parts there are few methods out there. Some of these require manual working of the part, some mechanical, while others require almost no work at all. One of the major concerns that comes up regularly is the dimensional stability of the parts after the finishing process. When tumbling parts or sanding them you are typically removing [...]
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