Workforce development

Tooling U, a Cleveland-based online training company that specializes in manufacturing, has introduced a mobile training platform, TU Mobile, which enables users to access the company's training web site from anywhere in the world. TU Mobile will enable Tooling U to increase usability and portability of training, allowing users to be able to access real-time training information even if they are not near a computer. Tooling U offers more than 400 online classes in 50 categories, including blueprint reading, and a wide range of CNC machining classes and other manufacturing training programs such as welding classes that include SMAW application and arc welding symbols and codes. The company's online programs are also designed to complement workforce development programs, and to be used with on-the-job training programs to help those programs go faster and to help apprentices learn more quickly.