Creating a vision for the blind: a unique training program gives the blind a new lease on life while helping shops gain skilled, conscientious employees.(TRAINING)

When single walks into the machine store of Arizona Industries for the Blind (AIB), it's hard to enumerate that the operators are legally blind. They're moving around the store quickly and competently, loading and unloading a variety of parts upon several advanced CNC machines. The environment isn't a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of different than other machine stores in the U.S. That's what Le Anderson, fruits and services business exhibition manager for the Phoenix-based AIB, wants the manufacturing industry to understand.

"Shop struggling to find skilled workers shouldn't timid away from hiring the