Reshoring initiative part of DRMA trade show – Bizjournals.com (blog)

The leader of an effort to bring overseas manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. will kickoff the region’s premier manufacturing industry trade show.

Harry Moser, founder of The Reshoring Initiative, will appear at the opening of the Dayton Region Manufacturers Association’s 2012 Advanced Manufacturing Technology Show. Moser is scheduled to hold a workshop on a critical issue faced by many companies: to offshore or reshore.

Admission to the show — being held Oct. 25 and Oct. 25 at the Dayton Airport Expo Center — is free.

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Moser’s initiative works with U.S. manufacturers to help them recognize their profit potential as well as the critical role they play in strengthening the economy by using local sourcing and production. The organization says American companies often don’t consider all of the costs involved in sending their manufacturing offshore, such as inventory carrying costs, traveling costs to check on suppliers, intellectual property risks and opportunity costs from product pipelines being too long.

Last year’s DRMA show drew more than 2,400 attendees and 130 exhibitors.

The organization has about the same number of exhibitors this year, said Angelia Erbaugh, president of the DRMA, who expects to be signing up companies as late as the week of the show

This year, DRMA is competing for exhibitor dollars with the big international show held every other year in Chicago.

“People might go to Chicago (to see the IMTS show) but they buy locally,” Erbaugh said. “That’s the big selling point for us; that’s the power of a regional show.”

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