- Skilled Trades in America - Skilled trades are needed now more than ever. America is facing a massive skilled labor shortage. According to the Department of Labor, the US economy had 7.6 million unfilled jobs, but only 6.5 million people were looking for work as of January 2019 and it is more apparent than ever that our country is suffering because of… Continue Reading
- Dylan Tompkins, the 2021 Monroe Professional Engineers Society Scholarship Program Recipient - Each year the Monroe County Professional Engineering Society (MPES) facilitates the award of several scholarships to High School students going into engineering curriculums in college. Optimation sponsors one of the MPES scholarships each year. Usually the scholarship recipients are recognized and celebrated at the Rochester Engineering Society Gala. Unfortunately there will not be an RES… Continue Reading
- Who Doesn’t Love Food? Check out some of our Favorite Food Projects. - At Optimation we design and fabricate manufacturing equipment. We have about a hundred creative and inquisitive engineers and another hundred creative and talented tradesmen. Optimation engineers create the designs. Skilled journeymen craft workers bring these designs to life in Optimation’s 100,000 square foot fabrication facility. Collaborating as a team they can design and build almost… Continue Reading
- National Engineers Week 2021 - National Engineer's Week in the United States is held every year in February during the week of George Washington's birthday. George Washington, the nation's first President, was also an engineer and a surveyor. He also served as an architect and designed his estate and the buildings at Mount Vernon. Washington also was a design engineer.… Continue Reading
- New Video: We Are the Doers – We Create - Optimation is a well-respected company in manufacturing nationwide, but as so often is the case many of the people who we at Optimation know personally have no idea "what we do". We are focused on American manufacturing and restoring a strong manufacturing industry to the country. Wendy Smith, COO said it right - we are excited… Continue Reading
- Advancing through COVID-19 While Maintaining Safety and Health - The COVID-19 pandemic has been a turbulent time for many manufacturers and other businesses. Balancing business needs with safety can be challenging, particularly when this pandemic disrupted supply chains, labor availability, and investment. Optimation has continually risen to this challenge by management the disruptions with strategic and thoughtful courses of action. We developed business continuation… Continue Reading
- Glass Manufacturing in Rochester – Klug Systems by Optimation - Many people may not know that Rochester, NY is home to a company with significant contributions to the glass industry, Klug Systems by Optimation. Klug, the name it is most known by, can trace its roots back to the 1920s and 1930s when John Klug first founded the creatively named John L Klug Corporation. In… Continue Reading
- Manufacturing Changes and Trends in 2021 - 2020 was a unique year in many ways for many reasons and for many people. This was true in the manufacturing industries as well as in education, medicine, and entertainment. The trends and the trajectory for manufacturing in the United States have shifted dramatically from what we were expecting a year ago. Many changes were… Continue Reading
- Optimation Technology Hires 4 New Trades Apprentices - Optimation Technology has 4 new trades apprentices. Cierra Collins from Rochester, Matthew Wise from Ontario, Jake Ingalls from Cuba, and Morgan Spurr from Rochester started the beginning of their new careers on January 25th, 2021. Out of more than 50 applicants, these 4 rose to the top of our desired list, and we are ecstatic… Continue Reading
- What Does a New President Mean for Manufacturing and U.S. Supply Chain? - The 46th President Must Prioritize Manufacturing in America. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20th, 2021, urging a bitterly divided country to come together at a perilous time in American history while moving quickly to begin implementing his agenda. In the hours after his… Continue Reading
