Focus of Presentation

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Focus of Presentation

• Looking toward 2010 or 2015, Californias key
  competitive workforce and industry challenges
• How the Workplace Learning Initiative can agilely
  and effectively organize a Nano/MEMS or Advanced
  Manufacturing Workforce Training Program

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Factors Affecting Californias Competitive
Advantage to Keep and Produce High Paying Jobs

• Global competition and the IT advantage
  Productivity and Global flocking
• Technology convergence Integration of new
  materials, advanced manufacturing, services, and
  logistics
• Materials revolution in manufacturing bio, nano,
  MEMS
• Changing workforce demographics Replacement of
  Skilled workforce
• From a 20th Century complicated future to a 21st
  Century complex future Leadership, networking,
  stability and flexibility issues

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Global Competition and the IT Advantage

• From January 1990 to September 2003, California
  lost almost 400,000 good paying manufacturing
  jobs. Manufacturing jobs dropped from 15.9
  percent to 10.9 percent of all jobs
• Still 52,341 manufacturing firms in California in
  2002 with 1.5 million workers
• One percentage point of US productivity growth
  can eliminate 1.3 million jobs nationally a year.
  Productivity is growing at an annual rate of 3
  to 3 1/2
• Companies are using information technology to
  increase productivity and to cut costs

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Modern Manufacturing Eras 20th to the 21st
Centuries
Nano-Bio-Digital Era
THE Digital Era
Diversified Quality Production and Flexible
Specialization
Innovation/Productivity
Lean Production
Fordism and Mass Manufacture
Cumulative Productivity/Innovation Effect on
Competitive Advantage
1920
2010
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Each Era is approximate as are the
innovation/productivity slopes.
Source Time Structures
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Materials-Advanced Manufacturing-IT Global
Dynamics
Advanced manufacturing Technologies
Logistics And IT
New Materials And Processes (Nano/MEMS/BIO)
Global/Local Customer and Markets Global
Flocking
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Converging Technology Manufacturing Jobs
Industry Conversion and New Jobs

Source Time Structures
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Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

• MEMS are small systems which have a moving part
  and utilize some form of electronics.
• In terms of a measurement scale, anything under
  100 nano meters (nm) is within the scope of
  nanotechnology and anything above that in the
  range of millimeter to 100 nanometer is micro
  technology or MEMS.
• In a way of speaking we can say that MEMS
  involves the fleas on an ant nanotechnology
  involves molecular processes that regulate the
  fleas cells.

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Each MEMS Mirror that is Part of the Projector is
about 17nm square (ant leg on Mirrors)

Spider Mite on MEMS Gear Assembly
Piston Seam Engine Source
http//mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp
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Nanotechnology

• Biology, chemistry, and physics have all
  independently converged into nanoscientific
  research areas, ranging from understanding
  intracellular processes to chemical interactions
  to quantum mechanics.
• Nanotechnology is the creation of useful and
  functional materials, devices and systems (of any
  size) through control and manipulation of novel
  phenomena and properties of matter at the atomic
  or molecular scale. Building molecule by
  molecule, or bottom up, is the realm of
  nanotechnology.

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Nanotech Related Employment 226,800 California
Jobs by 2015
Source Adolfo Nemirovsky (2005). nanoEducation
and Training Forum http//nanosense.org/documents/
nanoed05/presentations/NanoCareersAdolfo.ppt1
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The Skills Challenge
Source David Elwood, Aspen Institute, Domestic
Strategy Group Anthony P. Carneval and Donna M.
Desroachers, Educational Testing Services, as
cited by Collaborative Economics, Center for the
Continuing Study of the California Economy, and
J.K., Inc. (2004). Creating a Workforce
Transition System in California A Monograph of
the California Regional Economies Project,
California Economic Strategies Panel.
http//www.labor.ca.gov/panel/espcrepmonocwts.pdf
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Changing Workforce Demographics
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Workplace Literacy is Changing The21st Century
Workplace is not the 20th Century Workplace

• General literacy vs. science literacy
• Arithmetic literacy vs. math literacy
• No computer literacy vs. advanced computer
  literacy
• Basic shop equipment vs. ability to operate
  scientific laboratory equipment
• Conversational English vs. specialized technical
  English and interpret graphs
• Ability to follow instructions vs. innovation and
  problem solving capability
• No writing and analysis vs. technical report
  preparation and interpretation
• Individual job responsibility vs. capacity to
  form and work in mixed groups to innovate and
  solve problems
• One-time learning of competencies vs. continuous
  just-in-time life-long learning of new and
  different advanced competencies

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The Core of Californias Future Competitive
Advantage

Theme Stability with agility focusing on growth
and relevancy Goal An Economic and Workforce
Development Program that Realizes Continuous
Initiative Development by balancing stability and
change
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