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The Long, Long Wait for a Manufacturing Renaissance – EBN

March 31, 2015

Is the onshoring trend more hype than substance? Exactly a year has passed since my six-part series on the top 10 compelling reasons fueling the onshoring trend. As I pointed out then, we are still a long way from a manufacturing Renaissance in the United States. However, the undeniable influx of jobs brought back […]

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Reshoring Manufacturing Sounds Good, But Where Will You Put Your Factory? – EBN

March 30, 2015

There’s lots of noise these last few years about companies bringing back some of their manufacturing to North America. Cheaper energy options, better on-time delivery, and increasing wages in countries labeled low-cost have been cited as the main motivating factors. What kind of impact this is really having on the U.S. economy is up […]

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Reshoring deal sees turnover soar for One-LUX – Birmingham Post

March 27, 2015

The increasing trend for reshoring in the manufacturing sector has reaped dividends for an Aldridge electronic components specialist. One-LUX, which designs, assembles and supplies LED lighting control solutions, is set to break the £5 million turnover barrier for the first time this year. The firm says it is currently flying high thanks to a deal […]

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Soft furnishings firm reshores – BQ Live

March 26, 2015

Fuda-Hobart Rose, which was established in 1959, has tapped into support from the Business Growth Service and the Let’s Grow fund to reshore up to 20% of its manufacturing back from China after customers demanded greater flexibility and quicker lead times. The company is investing more than £250,000 and hundreds of hours of manpower […]

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Guess What’s Destroying the Middle Class? – Bloomberg View

March 25, 2015

Perhaps the biggest question in American political economy right now is why middle-class wages have been falling. There are three main hypotheses. Roughly, these are: Robots, unions and China.  The robots theory gets by far the most play in the news media, since it’s by far the scariest — if automation is replacing big chunks […]

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Michael Rogers, the Practical Futurist, to Keynote at RevAmerica 2015 – U.S … – PR Newswire (press release)

March 24, 2015

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Ahilia Inc., a global services, outsourcing and technology marketing consultancy, today announced that Michael Rogers, a technology pioneer, author and journalist, will keynote at RevAmerica 2015, the only national conference dedicated to […]

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Reshoring and TCO – Supply & Demand Chain Executive

March 20, 2015

Reshoring is the most direct solution for many of the hottest supply chain issues.  Drastically shortened lead time dramatically reduces the complexity of monitoring all levels of a global supply chain and the importance of longer-term forecasting. Shorter distance and lead-time also dramatically improve inventory turns and reduce the risk of supply chain disruption. Increasingly, […]

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Homeward bound: Why companies are ‘re-shoring’ back to the UK – Financial Director

March 20, 2015

THE British economy is beset by persistent structural problems. We haven’t been a manufacturing power for generations because we’re a ‘knowledge economy’.  It’s more profitable to sell land to a foreign investor than to stick a factory on it and make things. So why is ‘re-shoring’ – the practice by which British businesses stop outsourcing […]

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Experts To Talk American Manufacturing At International Plastics Showcase – ENGINEERING.com

March 19, 2015

Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing Scott Paul and Harry Moser will join NPE 2015: The International Plastic Showcase to talk about the future of American manufacturing. Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), and Moser, founder of the Reshoring […]

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The $1.2-billion fabrication question: To offshore or re-shore? – Oilsands Review

March 19, 2015

To a great degree, North America has been on an offshoring binge for the last three decades. Canadian and U.S. companies outsourced pretty much anything that could be outsourced. Why? It’s simple: lower-priced inputs to production, which at the time more than offset the higher risks and costs of logistics and transportation. The exception […]

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