November 5, 2013
Manufacturing is hard, but it’s getting easier. In every stage of the manufacturing process–prototyping, small runs, large runs, marketing, fulfillment–cheap tools and service models have become available, dramatically decreasing the amount of capital required to start building something and the expense of revising and improving a product once it’s in production. In this episode of […]
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November 5, 2013
Significant evidence suggests that the practice of “design in the U.S., manufacture in China” is no longer a foregone conclusion. A number of U.S. manufacturers, notably Apple, Electrolux, Lenovo, and NCR, are reversing this long-term trend by reshoring some supply chain, a more hybrid approach known as “rightshoring.” Harry Moser, founder of the not-for-profit Reshoring […]
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