The reindustrialization of America should be the top focus for investors in the coming years, as the country’s “industrial renaissance” is a matter of utmost importance to economic security, Richard Bernstein Advisors wrote in a note this week. The trend of American companies shifting away from dependence on foreign labor and supply chains should dominate […]

While “de-risking” has only recently entered the strategic vocabulary of Western policymakers, Japan has sought to de-risk its economy from China for well over ten years. Yet, the Japanese policy response to China’s coercive economic capacities has often been more ambivalent and less coherent than it initially appears. Take the case of China-Japan economic integration. […]

Deploy AI to tackling variances. A-based visions systems are also used to handle variances that have made some tasks too complex for traditional programming. For example, Micropsi Industries’ MIRAI enabled an HWL thermal treatment plant in Germany to automate the loading and unloading of highly reflective metal rods, where the rods’ original position and target […]

Some four years after the pandemic supply-chain disruptions sparked calls for a US reshoring boom, there’s still little consensus about what a reshoring boom actually looks like. US manufacturing construction spending has surged to a record annualized pace of more than $200 billion, but few companies are shuttering factories elsewhere in the world in order […]