Ryan Legg is in marketing and product management at the Siemens Digital Factory, Motion Control Systems, and Jason Rutt is the education manager at the Siemens Digital Factory, Machine Tool Systems at Siemens Industry, Inc., 390 Kent Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007, 847-640-1595, www.industry.usa.siemens.com.
As automation and IT enter more prominently into plant operations, the education that the manufacturing segment of our society provides for our current and future workforce will impact the viability of industry in America for generations to come.