Quick facts about Urban Manufacturing’s employees

• Employs 120 people, including 20-plus journeymen machinists and 2 apprenticeships
• 80% of the journeymen machinists trained in the apprenticeship program stay with the company
• Urban Manufacturing has never laid off any of its workers
• More than 30 employees have been with Urban Manufacturing for 20 years or longer
• Urban Manufacturing works two shifts, first and second

Urban Manufacturing's workforce

Urban Manufacturing maintains a continuous apprenticeship program, with two machinists working toward the status of journeymen at all times.

In addition, Urban Manufacturing employees also receive formal training in engineering, manufacturing and inspection processes and critical areas as needed:

• ISO standards compliance and processes
• Lean Manufacturing
• GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
• TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
• SPC (Statistical Process Control)
• PPAP (Production Parts Approval Process)
• Value Stream Mapping (material and information flow)
• Cellular manufacturing (lean manufacturing and workspace design)
• Kanban pull systems
• Set-Up Reduction (process mapping and organization)
• 5S
• General math skills
• ESL (English as a Second Language)
• 5S (workspace organization)