Considering Modern Apprenticeships

Andries Breedt Breedt Production Tooling & Design, LLC

Tacoma - Pierce County Chamber of Commerce

Manufacturing-Industries-Maritime Meeting

April 29, 2014

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)

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the future is now

What is Apprenticeship Today?

Tool Designer circa 1980

Leaving Familiar shores

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

IS NOW THE RIGHT TIME TO START?

WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACKS?

Common Objections

• costs money

• no one to train them

• not efficient, productivity suffers• apprentices seek work

elsewhere after training

Collaboration vital for Success

• Shared responsibility within the industry

-to create cultural value for manufacturing-to create the future we collectively envision

• Shared responsibility between industry and education

• National Control Board for a systemic approach