FMA member Traci Tapani, co-president of Wyoming Device and FMA financial analyst Dr. Chris Kuehl provided the keynote at this convention in April 2011. Tapani provided events that were indicative of the type of problems her business has actually faced in the past year or 2 in attempting to hire competent staff members. Dr. Kuehl put her examples in a nationwide context to highlight the severe nature of the competent labor scarcity in production.