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I'm Charlie Hackett, Director of Corporate Improvement at Hypertherm. I've been with
the company since 1995. Hi, my name's Alex Jaccaci, I'm the Corporate Improvement Training Facilitator,
and I've been with the company for about a year and a half. One of the reasons
that we wanted to work with the New England Board of Higher Education - it really reflects
one of the parts of our mission as a company, which is to enrich our communities, and we
believe as a company very strongly in the power of education. So this is an opportunity
for us to take some of the examples of what we do in a manufacturing environment, and
use them as a teaching tool in communities and in the schools. And I think we're very
interested in Problem Based Learning. That is a methodology that we use here in our training
programs for our associates in our internal training development. We have a program called
Green Belt - Lean/Six-Sigma Green Belt - and this is where students work for about six
months and define a problem and an objective, and work through a problem-solving methodology
in order to be able to get an improved result for the business, as well as learning through
the process as well. We really try to organize our training programs here and our learning
programs to really be problem-centered, so that we can have real hands-on application
thinking and learning while we solve problems together as teams. The problem that you saw
- or will see - in this series of videos is a real-life problem that we had to deal with
here at Hypertherm. So it reflects the kind of issues that our engineers, our manufacturing
associates deal with on a day-to-day basis.