The manufacturing industry has a talent shortage, and it isn’t going away any time soon. Demand for top-tier talent continues to exceed the pool of skilled workers in industries like manufacturing and IT, resulting in many positions going unfilled. The…

Talent recruitment requires long-term strategy. Winning individual hiring battles may offer immediate success and satisfaction as you fill open positions, but an incorrect placement due to lack of established processes can ultimately set your organization back even further than expected….

All the talk by the Trump Administration regarding unfair trade agreements has put new focus on NAFTA. The ramification of changes in NAFTA are great media fodder for speculating how the price of major consumer goods like automobiles and appliances will be adversely impacted.

With President Trump announcing his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, many people are wondering how that will affect American manufacturing. The Alliance for American Manufacturing, a non-profit, non-partisan partnership formed in 2007 by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers, has quickly responded. It believes that climate change is real and that manufacturers should do their part to lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve our environment.

From driverless cars, to virtual assistants Siri and Alexa, to robotics on the assembly line, rarely does a day go by without news of digitization, artificial intelligence and virtual reality impacting our lives in some way. While it’s a fact that the job market has made remarkable gains in the past year, automation is destined to change nearly everyone’s job in some way in the coming year.

A constant wave of new technology washes over us all. Whether we like it or not, change is inevitable and ongoing. That certainly applies to manufacturing. A prime example is the changes the music industry has undergone in the past…

Manufacturers worldwide are weighing the benefits and risks of integrating production lines with corporate data systems as they seek ways to apply new technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality. Their objective is to improve quality and embrace…

During the last 18 months of the hard-fought presidential campaign, we heard a lot of discussion about the declining state of the manufacturing in the U.S. Just this week, President Trump used his inaugural speech to talk about the “graveyard…

The reverse migration of manufacturing from China to the U.S.—known as reshoring—appears to be gaining momentum.  What began as a trickle with companies like NCR and Ford announcing their intent to bring back manufacturing jobs from China to the states,…

Both Wall Street and Washington like to cite manufacturing statistics whenever possible as a positive affirmation of an improved economy in what has been perceived overall as a tepid recovery at best. The manufacturing figures most often thrown around are the…