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Manufacturing jobs used to conjure visions of smoke-filled rooms and oiled floors with workers manually operating machines that drilled holes, cut materials and welded joints. Those images are quickly becoming nonexistent in today's high-tech world.

MAG, a global leader in machining equipment with one of three main U.S. plants in Hebron and its North American headquarters in Erlanger, recognized that necessity early, working with Gateway Community and Technical College to design and implement an apprenticeship program which is about to graduate its first students.

Northern Kentucky-based Messier-Bugatti USA (MB USA) is a global producer of wheels, brakes and carbon-carbon heatsinks used in aircraft braking systems.  Since the 1980s, its parent company, Messier-Bugatti, SAFRAN Group, headquartered in France, has distinguished itself by refining carbon braking systems for commercial aircraft, which have since replaced the steel braking systems of the past.  Alongside acting as a production facility, MB USA is also a customer support center for clients in the Americas, Asia and Oceania.

Kristin McLane helped start CIMx 13 years ago, and today is the majority shareholder, making the firm one of the few woman-owned businesses in the aerospace and defense sector.  The company's manufacturing software is used by major defense contractors, including GE, Boeing and Honeywell.