Reshoring News

The Finance Tool That’s Helping Manufacturers Bring Their Offshored Production Processes Home  Forbes

With rising costs and economic uncertainty many manufacturers are rethinking decades old decisions to offshore production. A new finance tool is helping many …

Robotisation could help ‘reshore’ manufacturing jobs back to Europe  USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog)

One would be hard-pressed to find many commentators ready to say Europe’s manufacturing industry is coasting. Rather, the last decades have been quite …

Gaining access to aerospace, defense sectors – Local Columnists, Opinion  The Sheridan Press

We welcome 2019. Economically, Sheridan thrived during 2018 with continued growth in construction, manufacturing and the emerging tech environment.

One would be hard-pressed to find many commentators ready to say Europe’s manufacturing industry is coasting. Rather, the last decades have been quite competent at throwing several challenges towards …
ALEX BRUMMER: China upsets the applecart  This is Money

The implosion at Apple will be watched with bemused detachment by those who detest the arrogance of the tech giant. Its ruthless treatment of suppliers, …

Slowing economy spells pause for industrial real estate market  DC Velocity

But savvy developers will pursue inland port opportunities and growing demand for urban fulfillment centers, new research shows.

In the Face of 2019’s Global Challenges, Speed and Agility Change the Game  Manufacturing.net

As tariff negotiations and trade disputes roll on in fits and starts, manufacturers and their supply chain partners are getting a real-life object lesson in the …

4 Considerations for Western Companies That Want to Leave China  Robotics Business Review

Are you planning to leave China? With nearly 6,000 Harmonized Tariff Schedule item classifications identified for the imposition of a 10% to 25% penalty tariff on …

Outsourcing purely to achieve cost savings is no longer an optimal strategy, according to the Reshoring Institute (Los Gatos, CA). As market-leading companies try to balance a diverse set of needs—res…
RFID, AIDC and IoT: A Look Back at the 10 Commandments of Bar Coding  Supply Chain Digest

A strange as it may seem for today’s generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls.