Global Best Skills Training Program
FAME provides a comprehensive, hands-on education that prepares individuals for critical skilled roles in modern maintenance roles in the industry.
Global Best Skills Training Program
FAME is the premier American model of skills training for modern manufacturing. FAME training programs develop highly skilled, globally competitive, well-rounded and sought-after talent that can meet the unique needs and challenges of today’s modern manufacturing workforce.
Every year, FAME graduates’ transition into well-paying, diverse career pathways in critical disciplines across the manufacturing industry and across the country.

FAME training programs leverage a work/learn framework to weave technical knowledge, professional behaviors and distinct manufacturing core exercises into a focused co-op experience to build global-best, entry-level, multiskilled maintenance technicians.a

Educational Excellence
FAME is the nation’s premier, highly integrated and proven manufacturing career pathway program. It connects prospective talent to training opportunities in advanced manufacturing that will lead to well-paying careers.

Trained & Professional
FAME equips the next generation of American workers with the skills to succeed in a career in modern manufacturing through deep integration of the core competencies in manufacturing, industry-specific skills and professional habits that prepare the next generation to join and succeed in the workforce of today and tomorrow.

Linking Industry & Education
Led by manufacturers, and supported by education partners, FAME establishes a best-in-class curriculum encompassing hands-on and virtual programming that provide real, tangible solutions to the industry’s toughest challenges in skills training and workforce development across a variety of industries within manufacturing.
The FAME Model


Recruit Top Talent with FAME
The FAME model facilitates employer-led partnerships between your company and local educational institutions and establishes a channel for recruiting diverse, high-achieving and career-oriented students. Once established, the cooperative of local employers that make up the FAME Chapter will generate a continuous pipeline of skilled technicians through the FAME training program.
FAME students will gain experience within a modern manufacturing environment, as well as a simulated shop floor for classroom experience, to become global-best, entry-level, multiskilled maintenance technicians.
The practice areas include lessons that tackle the Manufacturing Core Exercises (MCEs) and Professional Behaviors as well as:

Electricity

Robotics

Fluid Power

Mechanics

Fabrication

Industrial
Troubleshooting
FAME graduates will receive an associate degree with at least 60 credit hours and earn more than 1,800 hours of on-the-job, paid work experience and training that will launch their career as a manufacturing technician. Graduates are prepared for an accelerated career in maintenance upon program completion.
Our Impact Across The Country At A Glance
since 2012
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FAME is driving the future of the manufacturing industry by building cohesive cooperatives of manufacturers to implement this proven model of skilled training.
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