Miller Product Manager Bill Gardner, along with two industrial hygiene and safety experts presented an hour-long webinar discussing heat stress in welding environments, including common symptoms of heat stress, their dangers and best practices for preventing heat stress-related illnesses and injuries.

In case you missed it (or if you did catch it and want to download the PowerPoint document) the webinar is now archived on the Industrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) Web site, and will be available until June 23, 2011. Visit the ISHN Web site to register (free) and begin listening to the webinar. Click Click here to read the full story about the challenges Ultra Machine and Fabrication faced in meeting the welding demands for the M-ATV contract and how the Axcess’ Accu-Pulse technology helped the company successfully complete the project and positioned it to win more in the future.

Miller was recently named as one of a handful of manufacturing companies in Northeast Wisconsin to score highly in a recent survey on sustainable business practices through UW Oshkosh. As part of the recognition, an Emmy-award winning videographer interviewed several Miller employees about the company’s sustainability initiatives for a video produced by the technical colleges of Wisconsin’s NEW North consortium, including Fox Valley, Northeast Wisconsin, Moraine Park, and Lakeshore. The video will be used for training on college campuses and a variety of continuing education courses. Among the topics covered were Miller’s employee involvement program, the company’s waste reduction efforts, our 750,000 sq. ft. air conditioning system and  our employee-initiated recycling program.

If you’re interested in the success of manufacturing in this country, you might want to check out www.manufacturingthefuture.com, the web site for a documentary that the videographer is currently working on. He has interviews with a wide variety of manufacturing experts about the future of manufacturing along with many programs designed to generate interest in manufacturing among high school and college students.