Miller Ingenuity Launches Innovation Contest
College and graduate students are invited to submit plans that will attract the best and brightest minds into manufacturing.
Posted: October 1, 2014
Miller Ingenuity (Winona, MN) invites all college and graduate students to submit plans and creative ideas in response to the challenge: “How Might American Manufacturers Attract the Best and Brightest Innovative Minds to Pursue Careers in the Manufacturing Industry.” The best solutions will win a first place prize of $7,000; second place prize is $2,000; and third place prize is $1,000. Submissions are due November 5, 2014.
The contest will be announced nationally at the company’s October 22, 2014 launch of Creation Station, a state-of-the-art 1,200 sq ft collaborative space. The Google-like campus within a factory is a first of its kind in the U.S.
For more than 60 years, thanks to its founder “Rudy” Miller who invented a product that saved and revolutionized rail transport, the company has demonstrated the ability to conceptualize, design, produce and deliver transportation parts that meet the current and emerging needs of the industry.
These continued innovations are driven by three core motivations: to take on customer challenges, to think more creatively about solutions, and to be everyday heroes to their customers.
For several decades running, the manufacturing industry in the U.S. has lost its world dominance to countries with cheap and abundant labor. However, American manufacturers have competed well when we offer innovative products combined with lean process and cutting-edge technologies to reduce costs. Manufacturing is critical to the continued resurgence of the American economy. Miller Ingenuity is hiring.
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