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Dynamic EMS: STEM Education is the Future for Manufacturing
November 14, 2018 | Dynamic EMS LtdEstimated reading time: 3 minutes

Leading UK-based electronics manufacturing service provider (EMS) Dynamic EMS is like many other companies in its field. It is aware that it is home to an aging workforce. Unlike others, however, the company is strategically working behind the scenes to put succession plans in place and promote an accurate picture of UK electronics manufacturing through various STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) initiatives.
Human Resources Manager Victoria Bonnar has made STEM a personal crusade, and in this article, she discusses the steps that Dynamic EMS is taking to ensure that a career in electronics manufacturing is seen as an exciting, challenging and ‘dynamic’ opportunity for all.
Manufacturing is crucial to the UK, we led the industrial revolution, and to maintain our position as a country with influence, we need to continue to strengthen our skills and grow the number of goods made in the UK.
The 2017 – 2018 statistics highlight that the manufacturing sector is rising, which allows us to continue to support employment and trade agreements. As our customers request higher levels of customisation, we’ve seen a shift towards more demanding and complex system assembly, which calls for a higher level of skill. There is also the ‘ripple effect’ in manufacturing. One new account creates approx. eight roles throughout the entire global supply chain. So, with an aging workforce and a boom in electronics manufacturing, we need to bridge the talent gap to ensure the innovation of tomorrow becomes a reality. The challenge falls in talent acquisition. The solution is to ensure that companies like Dynamic EMS responsibly promote an accurate perception of careers within manufacturing.
There is too much negativity surrounding the ability and attitude of the next generation. From our experience, Generation Y, or millennials are just as hungry to learn and work as the generations who went before them (Generation X and the Baby Boomers). It’s sometimes just not packaged attractively enough to entice them.
This is why we need to promote the reality, that a career in electronic manufacturing is a career in art, design, and engineering. Essentially innovating the products for tomorrow, today. It’s this ‘packaging’ that we need to present, and to do this, we need to take STEM into the classroom.
We would like to enhance the student’s knowledge, by being a source to help young people gain an accurate view of what a career in electronics manufacturing can offer.
There is an outdated view of electronics manufacturing in the UK, it’s far less labour intensive than it once was. We have invested significantly in Capital Equipment to streamline the manufacturing process, to make it more efficient and effective. In turn, we have upskilled our team. Positions opening in design, engineering, supply chain and operations, all require an understanding of the subjects that fall under the STEM umbrella.
Together with academia, industrial partners and best-in-class manufacturing technology companies, we would like to create new and better workforce models and STEM educational opportunities to support job creation, advance scientific discovery and enhance manufacturing capabilities.
We take every opportunity open to us to showcase our current reality of advanced manufacturing, robotics, connectivity tools, IoT, additive manufacturing, automation, supply chain management, innovation, and tech. This ensures that the next generation is more aware, and has an accurate perception to allow them to form their own opinion of how rewarding a career in electronics manufacturing can be. It can take you around the world, raise your awareness of varying global cultures and it can put you in front of the technological future.
It really is a dynamic environment to work in, and we will do what we can to ensure it is open to all.
About Dynamic EMS
At Dynamic EMS, we understand that no two-electronic equipment manufacturing customers are the same. Their products, their supply chains, and their markets all differ, which is why Dynamic EMS offer a tailor-made, customised electronics manufacturing services, to customers with complex, highly-diversified business.
From design to distribution, we enable our customers to be more competitive by bringing innovative solutions to market faster with a commitment to quality in everything we do. Dynamic EMS – Your Product Solutions Architect.
Enabling Market Solutions for all technology companies.
Find out more about Dynamic, click here.
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