Urgent Design: Growing Lapeer Business Trains 59 Employees With “Going Pro” Funds

Urgent Design and Manufacturing needed skilled employees that could read part prints correctly to reduce the need and cost of retooling. The need also arose for maintenance training for employees in that department to reduce down time of lasers, allow employees to be more effective, and increase part output. 

GST Michigan Works! in Lapeer encouraged Urgent Design to apply for the 2023 Going Pro Talent Fund award to assist with the costs of upskilling employees. They were granted $31,375, which provided training in Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing to 55 employees and Mechanical Maintenance TruLaser Cell 7000 to an additional 4 employees. 

TRUMPF Inc. Laser Technology Center provided maintenance training and Dimensional Management Systems provided fundamentals of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. Both providers taught in a customized classroom setting. All participating employees received certificates of completion!

It is worth all the time and effort spent applying for training funds so that Employers can retain their current teams and gain upskilled employees who will strengthen the workforce and increase a strong presence in the prototype industry of the company.