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Apple, Offshoring and the Decline of the American Middle Class

By: James A. (Jim) Smith Ph.D. ABD, Assembly magazine Working conditions continue to be an issue at the Foxconn factories in China where Apple makes its best-selling electronic gadgets. On June 19, a...

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Offshore Continues to Bite Back

By: Paul J. Heney, Design World I’ve been writing about the problems with offshoring—and the welcome springing back of the reshoring phenomenon for quite some time. Lately, it has been very interesting...

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Report Heralds Revival of American Manufacturing

By: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design TD Economics, an affiliate of TD Bank, released a special report crediting the revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector as a key driver in the economic recovery,...

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How Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question

By: Arik Hesseldahl, All Things D Toward the end of last night’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, the moderator, CNN’s Candy Crowley, asked a perfectly...

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Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing With Right Sizing

By: Tim Hutzel, Dave Lippert and MainStream Management, LLC, Manufacturing.Net, Industry Week The story of how the United States lost its place in manufacturing dominance and why jobs were shipped...

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Manufacturing Jobs Returning to U.S.

By: Andrea Kay, Gannett, USA Today Who would have thought that jobs like metal-refining furnace operators and tenders would be making a comeback in the year 2012? But they are. Such jobs, done by folks...

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Designing for Reshoring: Can DFM and DFA Bring it Home?

By: Clare Goldsberry, Plastics Today Total cost of ownership (TCO) and total cost of management (TCM) represent a supply chain model that has been around for several decades. However, according to John...

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