Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc.: Manufacturer of the Month March 2024
Clippard is a leading manufacturer of miniature pneumatic valves and solutions, specializing in ultra-low leak,precision pressure control, and high-resolution flow control.
MANUFACTURER OF THE MONTH
Location:
Hamilton County
What does your business create?
Clippard is a leading manufacturer of miniature pneumatic valves and solutions, specializing in ultra-low leak, precision pressure control, and high-resolution flow control. We have been serving our customers for over 78 years. Our valve technology moves liquid or gas at custom-specified flow rates and pressures for customized applications.
What makes you proud to be in the manufacturing industry?
Medical manufacturing plays a crucial role in providing hospitals and healthcare organizations with the parts they need to continue their patient care. Knowing that our work contributes to the accessibility of high-quality products in the industry is a huge source of pride amongst all of our employees at Elite. Continuous innovation, teamwork, and ensuring the highest standards of patient safety is personally rewarding.
What career path opportunities can be pursued at your company?
Our ability to design, create, manufacture, and deliver meaningful and purposeful solutions timely because of our talent and capabilities makes us proud to be in manufacturing. One could obtain and enjoy several career paths at Clippard, one of which starts in machining. Clippard will hire entry-level machine operators and provide training opportunities to build their skills and exposure to on-the-job training, coaching, and mentoring.
We offer upskilling training opportunities to move from an assembler to an entry-level machine operator to a Level I CNC Machine Operator, then next to a Level II CNC Machine Operator and Setup Person. This career trajectory can progress to a Machinist who can set up/up and program milling and turning machines with multi-axis. Many team members who started as machine operators have moved up in the company over the years into supervisors, leader persons, quality technicians, operations managers, operations directors, engineers, and market research directors. This career path provides the best building blocks for understanding business operations. Machine operators of all levels are the most critical in meeting our production needs.
What do you love most about the greater Cincinnati region?
The Greater Cincinnati region has a unique and vibrant history of manufacturing, which has created a wellspring of collaboration and partnerships with manufacturers like us, career tech programs, manufacturing associations, educational institutions, our great state of Ohio, and AMIP to help further the success and growth of all stakeholders who benefit from manufacturing, which is what we love the most our region.
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