Photo Release -- On Manufacturing Day, Northrop Grumman Highlights Career Opportunities and the Critical Role Manufacturing P...
October 02 2015 - 10:28AM
Activities included helping high school students
nationwide manufacture parts of affordable prosthetic hands
using additive manufacturing processes
Students and local officials viewed advanced manufacturing
production of microelectronics, satellites and communications
systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), a leading aerospace and
defense manufacturer of manned and unmanned aircraft, satellites,
electronics, robotics and other systems, celebrated Manufacturing
Day this week at its facilities across the country. Twenty Northrop
Grumman sites held activities designed to draw attention to the
outstanding career opportunities in manufacturing and to showcase
the company's expansive capabilities.
A photo of those activities is available at:
http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/mediagallery.html?pkgid=36650
Over the next decade it is estimated that nearly 3.5 million
U.S. manufacturing jobs will be needed and 2 million of those
positions are expected to go unfilled due to manufacturers'
inability to find talent with the required skills, according to a
study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Manufacturing Day, an annual national event held on the first
Friday in October, is a grassroots effort by U.S. manufacturers
designed to showcase modern manufacturing technology and careers,
and improve the public perception of manufacturing in America. More
information is available at: www.mfgday.com.
Northrop Grumman was among hundreds of manufacturers across the
nation that hosted students, employees, job seekers, and other
local community members at open houses. Some of the activities
included:
- Tours for middle school, high school and college students of
space foundry/manufacturing facilities
- Numerous appreciation events for manufacturing and production
employees
- A manufacturing demonstration for a high school robotics
team
- A fashion show for manufacturing employees
- Media tours highlighting the company's impact to local
communities, focus on environmentally conscious manufacturing, and
its role in defense manufacturing
At 12 Northrop Grumman facilities nationwide, employees
assisted science, technology, engineering and math students
from area high schools with a prosthetic hand assembly
project. Traditional prosthetic hands can cost thousands of
dollars, whereas the student-constructed devices cost $30-40 and
were made using advanced, additive manufacturing. The hands were
donated to Enabling the Future, a nonprofit that specializes in
providing prosthetics to children in need around the globe.
Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, California site recently received
the Silver level Zero Waste certification from the U.S. Zero Waste
Business Council, becoming the first aerospace production and
manufacturing facility in the U.S. to receive this honor. The
Palmdale site, which produces F-35 center fuselages was voted
Assembly Plant of the Year in 2013 by Assembly Magazine.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
CONTACT: Randy Belote
703-280-2720 (office)
443-994-1489 (mobile)
randy.belote@ngc.com
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