{"id":11454,"date":"2013-11-06T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:11:17","slug":"hazelwood-based-biomerieux-forms-partnership-with-ranken-tech-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=11454","title":{"rendered":"Hazelwood-Based bioM\u00e9rieux Forms Partnership with Ranken Tech College"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three years ago, bioM\u00e9rieux\u2019s research and development production center in Hazelwood and Ranken Technical College formed a micro enterprise partnership. The success of this partnership was touted recently at a mini job fair and screening of a documentary, \u201cAmerican Made Movie,\u201d on the school\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The program offers manufacturing internships to Ranken students, giving them a chance to get paid a part-time wage each week for twenty hours of work.<\/p>\n

Vince Holtmann, Faculty Project Manager \u2013 Education and Manufacturing Cooperative for Ranken Technical College, said that 45 students have gone through this program since its inception three years ago. Nine students are currently employed part-time for this project with plans to add up to two more students in the near future. Student responsibilities include the assembly and testing of high-tech medical electronic sub-components for bioM\u00e9rieux.\u00a0 Students primarily work on two of bioM\u00e9rieux\u2019s products, the Vitek 2 and Bac-T Alert System, which are produced at the Hazelwood plant.<\/p>\n

A unique feature of these internships is that students can perform the work for Ranken\u2019s micro enterprise partners on campus. It cuts down on their commute time to and from work, reduces the amount of money they spend on putting gas in the car, and offers flexibility to their schedules. Students can work before classes, between classes, and\/or after classes.<\/p>\n

bioM\u00e9rieux made a decision to enter into this partnership with Ranken Technical College instead of outsourcing the work. \u201cBecause of the great success we\u2019ve experienced with this partnership, other micro enterprise manufacturing internship programs are opening up and becoming a part of our three-tiered win-win-win strategy at Ranken,\u201d said Holtmann. \u201cIt\u2019s a win for industry, a win for Ranken \u2013 but even more importantly \u2013 it\u2019s a win for the students who work their way through school part-time while gaining valuable hands-on experience in a modern manufacturing environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Including bioM\u00e9rieux, Ranken has established six micro enterprise partnership programs for its students with local companies. The other five include Ehrhardt Tool and Machine, Emerson, Hunter Engineering, JM&A, as well as an automotive restoration project.<\/p>\n

In the past, the focus has been on offering a four-year university education or an on-the-job apprenticeship to help students develop job skills for the 21st century workplace. Ranken believes there is a third option for students interested in training for a technical career that offers them good paying jobs – a two-year technical education curriculum in combination with a manufacturing internship component.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cForward thinking companies, like bioM\u00e9rieux, are getting on board with this model and reaping the benefits by having better trained employees for the next generation of America\u2019s workforce. Establishing education and manufacturing partnerships can help keep and attract good manufacturing jobs in the St. Louis area,\u201d Holtmann noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the 1980s when McDonnell Douglas (now known as Boeing) was heavily involved in NASA\u2019s International Space Station program, it started developing microbiology diagnostic systems to use on different space missions. McDonnell later decided not to continue as an electronic medical device manufacturer and spun-off a separate company called Vitek Systems, Inc. It chose Hazelwood as its home base because of the close proximity to McDonnell. bioM\u00e9rieux later acquired Vitek Systems, Inc., through a company merger.<\/p>\n

A French-owned company, bioM\u00e9rieux has been a world leader in the field of vitro diagnostics over the past 50 years. The company is present in more than 150 countries through 41 subsidiaries and a large network of distributors. In 2012, revenues reached \u00a41,570 million with 87 percent of sales outside of France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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