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66 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST April/May 2018 Industry News Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Supports Workshops for Warriors Program Hexagon Manufacturing Intel- ligence has announced its support for Workshops for Warriors (WFW), a non-profit school created to train military veterans in the field of ad- vanced manufacturing. Hexagon has contributed several portable ROMER Absolute Arms to help expand the program into metrology. Located in San Diego, WFW has produced 421 graduates earning 2,500 nationally recognized certifications from the Na- tional Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS), the American Welding Soci- ety and more. Hernàn Luis y Prado, the school’s founder who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, wanted to help his community of veterans struggling in their transition back to civilian life. Since 2008, Hernàn has built a voca- tional training program for his fellow service members to learn and earn por- table and stackable credentials in their chosen manufacturing career field. Luis y Prado, said, “Hexagon provides calibration services for its products locally, which is important to us, and supports the needs of our dynamic hands-on teaching environ- ment. Most manufacturers in our area already have Hexagon technologies, so students can gain experience on indus- trial grade equipment here, then move into a real manufacturing environment. Employers have told us specifically that having graduates with metrology training and experience on Hexagon equipment is one of the main reasons why they were hired. “Metrology is crucial for Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing as a whole. Students trained in metrology can confirm what they build - verify if a part is actually what they intended to produce or reverse engineer. Veterans are taught to use billion dollar pieces of equipment in the military. You train like you fight, and when you fight, you fight like you were trained.WFWwants to place an incred- ibly powerful portable CMM into the hands of 20-something veterans and have them master that device”.