We are so proud to share that Claire Fallon, the International Society of Automation (ISA)'s CEO and executive director, was interviewed by WRAL News, a local TV station near our headquarters in Durham, North Carolina.
Reporter Dan Haggerty spoke with Claire and other experts on the present and future of manufacturing and automation. In the segment, he explores how manufacturing jobs have changed over the last few decades.
"We absolutely can bring manufacturing back and make it stronger. It's evolved, though — it's not going to be the manufacturing that we saw in the '50s and '60s. Last year alone, we trained over 14,000 people, and many of them were technicians, not just engineers and managers. There is a great demand for those technicians and people to have those credentials," said Claire.
ISA emphasizes that automation depends on people — that's the sentiment that inspired International Automation Professionals Day when we started celebrating it four years ago. Automation professionals are the driving force behind the systems, technologies and processes that make the world a better place. To realize automation's greatest potential, a skilled, knowledgeable and trained workforce has never been more important.
You can find information on the ISA training and certification programs that Claire discussed in the segment at www.isa.org/training. Claire also mentioned ISA position papers, which you can find at www.isa.org/position-papers.
ISA is always thrilled to share our resources and expertise with the community! You can watch the full segment on WRAL here.
