Video Interview: How Emerging Techs are Changing ITW
Maryann McNally is Vice President of Innovation at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), which is a $15 billion manufacturer of industrial products and equipment for a wide variety of industries, from automotive to food, construction, and test instrumentation. She recently sat down for an interview with Mark Bunger, Research Director at…
Reshoring Essential to Manufacturing’s Renaissance
By Harry Moser and Millar Kelley
Reshoring is a direct solution to supply chain challenges.
General Electric’s appliance division in Louisville, Kentucky, is the poster child of reshoring. The division started the return of its manufacturing to the United States with its water heater product line. In contrast to…
Manufacturing: Growth and Reshoring Shape 2015
By Rachel Duran
2015 offers a continuation of both expansion and clouds of uncertainty.
Positive trends sweeping the U.S. manufacturing sector are encouraging; however, the sector continues to contend with numerous challenges to growth and expansion, including an unfavorable tax climate, crumbling infrastructure, and difficulty in finding workers prepared…
2015: Manufacturing’s Next Act Is Here
The U.S. manufacturing sector appears to be on a secure path as we enter 2015. There are many reasons as to why; however, there are also many challenges to overcome, including EPA-related regulations. “Manufacturing: Growth and Reshoring Shape 2015” says one of the best ways manufacturers can defeat…
Fast Growing Trends in Solar, Medical Devices and Reshoring Prop Up Manufacturing
Utility-scale solar generation is sweeping the nation, and not just where you would expect. California, Arizona and Nevada’s annual number of days of sunshine are behind these states leadership in utility-scale solar generation in 2014. But states with less favorable annual number of sunny days, such as…