Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing designed to train future skilled professionals

"Across the nation there is a gap in skilled labor,"Northeast State Community College President Janice Gilliam said. "Manufacturing is coming back. It's going to be more automated, and people will have to have technical skills." That creates a challenge for workforce development professionals in the Mountain Empire. To meet that need, the 26,000-square-foot Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing was created. Filled with robotics arms, welding equipment and high-tech electronics, the center is designed to train future skilled manufacturing professionals.”