– June 4, 2014 –   Supply Chain News: SCDigest, MIT Supply Chain Forum Again Partner on Study to Gauge Extent of US Reshoring Trend   2012 Study Showed Reasonably Strong Plans to Keep or Return Production Work to US – How Has Dynamic Changed Over the Past Two Years? […]

Matt Rourke/AP By James B. Kelleher When Walmart Stores (WMT) pledged last year to buy an extra $250 billion in U.S.-made goods over the next decade, it appeared to be just what was needed to help move America’s putative manufacturing renaissance from rhetoric to reality. But suppliers trying to reshore production as part of the […]

SUGAR LAND, TX–(Marketwired – May 27, 2014) – Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — A growing number of U.S. industrial manufacturers are continuing to “re-shore” projects and jobs due to the higher quality of domestic work, the rising cost of overseas labor and the increased access to lower-priced raw […]

For robots, there’s no place like home! For years, we’ve watched much of the US manufacturing base move to other countries, especially China. This has been especially noticeable in high-tech, where first televisions and then personal computers and smartphones moved to lower-cost manufacturing. This also happened in the European Union (EU). In the […]