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Providing a Common Language for Industrial Workforce Education: MSSC
Releases 2014 Edition of Industry Skill Standards
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The national
Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) is pleased to announce
the release of its 2014 National Work Standards for Production and
Logistics. The industry-led, non-profit MSSC is the national
authority on defining industry-wide core technical competencies needed
by frontline workers in advanced manufacturing and logistics.
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"We believe that the use of a common language between industry and
education will offer a more efficient and cost-effective way of
preparing individuals with the higher skills needed by industry," said
MSSC Chairman and CEO, Leo Reddy. "MSSC standards help produce agile
knowledge workers-the Industrial Athletes of the Future-with the
stronger, cross-cutting foundational skills needed to help companies
achieve greater productivity, innovation and global economic
competitiveness."
The detailed MSSC Work Standards provide the industry definitions,
organizational taxonomy, syntax and nomenclature to describe the
critical work functions, key activities and performance indicators for
manufacturing and logistics. These standards enable industry, state
agencies, community colleges and high schools to more effectively
harmonize their curricula and credentialing programs, creating much
higher levels of coherence, portability and economies of scale.
Specifically, these organizations should use the MSSC Work Standards
in two ways. First, use the standards as the starting point for
defining industry skill requirements to make the process for defining
needs far more efficient. It also reassures companies, most of which
operate within a national or global environment, that they are
leveraging the authoritative national skills platform defined by
MSSC.
Second, schools should embed the subject matter of the standards into
for-credit courses at both the secondary and postsecondary levels and
build credit articulation agreements between high schools and
community colleges. MSSC has produced state-of-the-art online
curriculum that schools can easily incorporate into new or existing
programs. This enables students to work toward an industry
certification as well as a high school diploma or associate's degree.
MSSC's Work Standards are distributed nationally to leading companies,
community colleges, high schools, government agencies, unions and
foundations involved with workforce skills education and training.
These standards provide effectively a national, industry-defined
"common language" for these stakeholders to use in preparing
individuals for higher skilled entry-level work for the nation's 12
million frontline production and closely related material
handling-distribution occupations.
"The current U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance is the main force leading
the nation out of the Great Recession and is characterized by a growth
in both manufacturing and logistics jobs," said Reddy. "These
standards provide the perfect foundation for training programs at the
local, regional and national level to prepare people for these
high-demand, well-paying jobs."
To access the MSSC Work Standards, Click here
(https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MSSCStandards).
About MSSC: The Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) is the
nation's leading industry-led, standards, training, assessment and
certification organization focused on the industry-wide core technical
competencies needed by the nation's front-line production and material
handling workers. The federal National Skill Standards Board (NSSB)
officially recognized MSSC in 1998 as the "Voluntary Partnership" for
Manufacturing under the bipartisan National Skill Standards Act of
1994. MSSC issues the Certified Production Technician (CPT) and
Certified Logistics Technician (CLT) certifications. They are the
only credentials accredited by the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) under ISO Standard 17024 for both manufacturing and
logistics. MSSC delivers its training materials and assessments
through a nationwide infrastructure of over 1000 authorized
instructors and 580 test sites, mostly at community colleges and high
schools. To date, MSSC has issued over 52,000 credentials. Visit
www.msscusa.org.
CONTACT: Tina Driessen (703) 739-9000 x2223 Email
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