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http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/toyota-teaches-practical-skills-future-technicians

in the USA

Toyota teaches practical skills to future technicians to repair The AMT program is a partnership between Toyota Motor Manufacturing and Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Students finish with a Bluegrass associate’s degree, but they never have to set foot on the college campus. All classes are held at Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. Shortage of skilled workers At the Toyota plant in Georgetown, cars start as huge balls of steel. Twenty hours later, they’re driven off the line — a new car every 54 seconds.

One of the reasons Toyota is able to make cars so quickly is that robots do a lot of the work. But robots break down. Finding technicians who can fix them is a challenge.

“We can’t just go out and throw up some ads and hire some skilled people. They’re not out there,” says Toyota’s Dennis Dio Parker, who helped create the AMT program. ..........

Anyway is there a program like this in Thailand ?

I know there are many Robots in the factories , do they have to fly in a Tech to fix them from Japan ?

I know a couple students that are smart and this might be a good job