The National Association of Manufacturers reports that the retirement of the baby-boom generation will leave many job openings in the manufacturing industry. More than 76 million baby boomers will retire over the next 20 years, but only 46 million Generation Xers will take their places. American manufacturers face a severe shortage of men and women to run tomorrow's factories and offices.

QCC's Training and Education Center offers public enrollment classes that prepare people to enter the manufacturing industry:

• Basic Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Advanced Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Lean Manufacturing Principles

These courses are designed to help with understanding and using technically correct language to eliminate communication problems that occur in the design-to-manufacturing cycle.