The funding is designed to equip 40,000 current and future manufacturing employees with AI skills.

Wider efforts to ramp up training efforts are continuing according to the latest data in the MI’s State of Workforce Training in Manufacturing report, released in April of 2026, which found that 54.4% of firms were increasing current workforce training efforts.

Predictive maintenance doubles

Fluke’s survey, conducted by Censuswide, surveyed more than 600 senior decision-makers and maintenance professionals in the US, the UK and Germany across Food and Beverage, Oil and Gas, Life Sciences and Automotive industries.

The data showed that adoption of predictive maintenance doubled from 9% to 16%. 

Vineet Thuvara, Chief Product Officer at Fluke Corporation, says: “The progress is encouraging, but it’s not enough yet. 

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