CHICAGO, IL, Apr 20, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — More than a third of U.S.-based manufacturing executives at companies with sales greater than $1 billion are planning to bring back production to the United States from China or are considering it, according to a new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Decision makers at […]
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A new report from MFG.com, the world’s largest online sourcing marketplace for the manufacturing industry — shows that while reshoring is increasing, American manufacturers might not be able to carry the load . . . “There’s a severe shortage of workers,” says Mitch Free, Manufacturing Analyst and CEO of MFG.com. “Indicators are showing good […]
A few days ago, our sister site Spend Matters brought an interesting manufacturing survey to MetalMiner’s attention. MFG.com, the organization that comes out with the MFGWatch Manufacturing Supply Survey of North American buyers and suppliers (which MetalMiner has covered before), recently surveyed some 250 US job shops to parse out an overall economic outlook from their perspectives. […]
Continued from Part One. The surprise point should be GE’s adoption of lean manufacturing as a counter to low emerging-market labor rates. Lean manufacturing has been around for decades and benefits should have been won ten years back, but in GE’s case, a focus on statistically based, top-down Six Sigma appears to have taken the […]
President Barack Obama, flanked by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, delivers remarks on the administration’s commitment to export promotion to grow the economy and support new American jobs, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. —MCT We all know the United States has a jobs […]
By Venkatesh Narayanamurti Los Angeles Times We all know the United States has a jobs crisis. President Obama further acknowledged it when he made manufacturing a top priority in this year’s State of the Union address. He has his eye set on fixing the tax code to keep jobs onshore, training young people to fill […]
We all know the United States has a jobs crisis. President Obama further acknowledged it when he made manufacturing a top priority in this year’s State of the Union address. He has his eye set on fixing the tax code to keep jobs onshore, training young people to fill them, reforming immigration to retain workers […]
In all this, though, there’s a worrisome undercurrent. The United States didn’t just suddenly find itself in this crisis. Our nation has worked long and hard to get here, after decades of so-called free markets while other nations tilted the playing field, of American jobs going offshore, of politicians, economic advisers and industrialists finding […]
So U.S. industrial policy – or the lack of it – has made many nations rich in jobs, short on worker safety and loaded up on cash. But that’s the least of it. The United States also has put at risk its greatest asset: the return on its intellectual capital. We have let China learn […]
Another day, another new assembly plant. As we’ve been reporting, there’s been an uptick in manufacturing activity in recent months. For instance, just the other day, General Electric unveiled a refrigerator plant in Louisville, KY (several weeks after opening a new water heater plant at its Appliance Park complex). Perhaps all the talk about reshoring […]
