Manufacturing Renaissance Hype: Questionable Manufacturing Revival
|
| |
Barron's (subscription) ^
| January 17, 2015 | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal
All the talk we hear about a manufacturing renaissance in the U.S. is just that — all talk. That's
the conclusion of a new report from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation entitled "The Myth of America's Manufacturing Renaissance: The Real State of U.S. Manufacturing." As Adams Nager, an economic research assistant at the foundation and a co-author of the report, says, "A lot of what's in the news [about a revival] is based on anecdotes; there's very little real data." A look at job and factory numbers between 2007 and 2013 should put to rest any thoughts about a...
|
|
|
Manufacturing PMI® at 52.8%
July 2022 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®
|
| |
Institute for Supply Management ^
| August 1, 2022 | Institute for Supply Management
New Orders and Employment Contracting Production and Backlogs Growing Supplier Deliveries Slowing at a Slower Rate Raw Materials Inventories Growing; Customers’ Inventories Too Low Prices Increasing at a Slower Rate; Exports and Imports Growing Record-Long Lead Times for Production Materials and MRO Supplies Tempe, Arizona) — Economic activity in the manufacturing sector
grew in July, with the overall economy achieving a 26th consecutive month of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Timothy R. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M., Chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business...
|
|
|
Manufacturing a Crisis
|
| |
American Thinker ^
| May 14, 2016 | Steve Feinstein
If there is one thing that Democrats and Republicans always seem to agree on, it’s this: Manufacturing jobs are the key to economic success in this country. We’ve
got to “revitalize” the manufacturing sector if the economy is to generate strong job growth and economic expansion. That’s just such total hogwash, because it’s not true and it’s not reflective of reality. To begin with, it’s always been difficult to understand why “manufacturing jobs” are so sacrosanct in many peoples’ minds. What is it about sitting in front of an assembly line for hours on end, repeating the same task of...
|
|
|
Manufacturing is in recession
|
| |
businessinsider.com ^
| December1, 2015 | Akin Oyedele
Manufacturing is in recession. Data on manufacturing activity in November was released on Tuesday morning, and it did not look good. The
Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index was a big miss, at 48.6, the lowest since June 2009. It had been expected at 50.5, versus 50.1 prior. (A level below 50 indicates contraction; above 50, expansion.)
|
|
|
Why so much manufacturing still gets done in China
|
| |
Asia Times ^
With the current geopolitical challenges between China and the United States, as well as the ongoing supply chain issues affecting manufacturers and consumers, there’s been much talk about moving global manufacturing out of China. But despite the talk, US-China trade reached a record level in 2022, with no signs of any slowing
in the near future. ... We interviewed Joseph Eiger, our former student and an executive in a global sourcing company that manufactures consumer products, about how the world of manufacturing operates. Consider the case of making a baseball cap, for example. Some baseball caps are very basic, while...
|
|
|
MANUFACTURING HATE
|
| |
First Things ^
| April 2019 | R. R. Reno
Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a tough February. Soon after he made brutal remarks about the fate of children born alive after attempted abortions, his medical school yearbook page surfaced, showing one person in blackface and another in a KKK outfit. The
Twitter mobs rushed in attack. Northam temporized, first issuing the obligatory apology for his youthful indiscretion. Then he reversed himself, claiming that it was someone else in the photo. As Northam hovered on the edge of political oblivion, Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax was accused of sexual assault. He responded with denials, claiming the sex was consensual. Then...
|
|
|
Tax Reform - More Than Manufacturing
|
| |
Townhall.com ^
| January 24, 2017 | Hank Adler
Both President Trump and Speaker of the House Ryan want to increase U.S. jobs by increasing the number of Americans in the manufacturing work force and both believe that changes to corporate taxes are part of the formula to accomplish that goal. Both
are correct, but their goals should also include returning middle class computer processing jobs and call centers that have also moved offshore. Outsourcing does not begin and end with manufacturing. The accounting department of a major U.S. corporation should not be outsourced to another country. Engineering, medical reviews, accounting, legal research and millions of other jobs should...
|
|
|
Is U.S. Manufacturing Really in Decline?
|
| |
Strategy+business ^
| July 26, 2016 | Daniel Gross
Did you hear that U.S. manufacturing just had another big month? That
output has risen about 20 percent in the past six years? That industrial capacity is actually expanding?Probably not. At most times, and especially in election season, the talk surrounding U.S. manufacturing is one of relentless decline: a loss of jobs, the shutting down of factories, increased competition from foreign countries, a global war in which the U.S. seems to be on the losing end.And of course, it’s true. At some level, manufacturing has declined dramatically — as a direct employer of American workers. According to the Bureau of...
|
|
|
Manufacturing (New Normal) “Reality”
|
| |
Consent Factory ^
| 6-20-2021 | CJ Hopkins
The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideological uniformity and eliminate any and all deviation from it. This
goal can never be achieved, of course, but it is the raison d’être of all totalitarian systems, regardless of what forms they take and ideologies they espouse. You can dress totalitarianism up in Hugo Boss-designed Nazi uniforms, Mao suits, or medical-looking face masks, its core desire remains the same: to remake the world in its paranoid image … to replace reality with its own “reality.” We...
|
|
|
Mueller is Manufacturing Crimes
|
| |
Mr K the Know it all ^
| 12/1/18 | mR k
Cohen's 'crime' exists only because of mueller - there was no crime if there was no mueller investigation. So
we spent $30 million (so far) for mueller to MANUFACTURE crime. It has nothing to do with Trump, he gave a wrong date for a perfectly legal business transaction.
|
|
|
Manufacturing a Trump loss
|
| |
Washington Times ^
| Aug 17, 2016 | Tammy Bruce
No doubt you have noticed the unified messaging strategy between the Democrats and the Legacy Media, wherein GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has already lost the election. It’s
an amazing revelation that in mid-August one of the candidates has already been declared a losing loser of — what is it now — 49 of the 50 states? You see it every day on the broadcast news and with any basic Google or Twitter search. The New York Times: “The State of Clinton-Trump Race: Is It Over?” Huffington Post: “GOP Operatives Aren’t Sure Trump Wants to Win.” Politico: “GOP Insiders Aren’t...
|
|
|
The Future of American Manufacturing
|
| |
Popular Mechanics ^
| May 23, 2018 | Michael Stillwell
“Made in the U.S.A.” has been in decline for decades, but in the last few years it has shown signs of an incipient comeback. Even
as the number of manufacturing jobs has decreased, manufacturing output—the value of goods made here—has increased substantially. We still make $5.4 trillion worth of stuff annually here, and 12.4 million Americans still work in the manufacturing sector. But Trump administration tariffs, speculation about a trade war, and the continued march toward automation make the future of American manufacturing less certain. For this special report, we surveyed 26 of the largest manufacturers in the country—and a...
|
|
|
Manufacturing Mental Illness
|
| |
New American Prophet ^
| May 10, 2023 | Rob Pue
We must all understand that “transgenderism” is a mental disorder. But
not just any mental disorder. This one is being force-fed into the minds of our children from the earliest of ages. We are “manufacturing’ mental illness.
|
|
|
Nobody wants to admit American manufacturing just hit a new low
|
| |
Hot Air ^
| 4/5/23 | Jazz Shaw
In case you hadn’t noticed, President Joe Biden has been making a number of appearances lately at manufacturing plants. These
trips included a microchip plant in North Carolina and a “green energy” plant in Minnesota. He’s been attempting to show voters how his policies are driving an economic comeback in the manufacturing sector, particularly for projects to save the climate or whatever. But as usual, the real story of American manufacturing is quite different than the one that the White House is trying to sell. As was reported in the Free Beacon on Monday, analysts are keeping a close eye...
|
|
|
Why Are Politicians So Obsessed With Manufacturing?
|
| |
NY Times Mag. ^
| OCT. 4, 2016 | BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
When Donald J. Trump landed in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago, the city was buzzing about Uber’s deployment of the world’s first fleet of driverless taxicabs. Political
leaders were thrilled that Silicon Valley was hiring highly paid workers and investing hundreds of millions of dollars in western Pennsylvania. Local taxi drivers were understandably less excited that robots were coming for their jobs. Pittsburgh’s football team may still be called the Steelers, but the city has, like the rest of the country, become predominantly a service economy. More than 80 percent of local jobs are in the service sector, roughly on...
|
|
|
Ericsson to end manufacturing in Sweden?
|
| |
TheLocal.se ^
| 22 Sep 2016 07:56 GMT+02:00 | (TT/The Local)
Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson is planning to end all of its manufacturing in the country, according to a report in newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD). Part of a savings plan detailed on an internal document which SvD gained access to, the decision would mean that 3,000 employees lose their jobs following the closure
of Ericsson’s last manufacturing plants in Sweden, in Borås and Kumla. In the document, Ericsson’s leadership are said to have stated that “We will end a 140-year-old manufacturing period, which represents the biggest cuts of employees in Sweden ever”. The company employs a total of around 15,000 people...
|
|
|
Manufacturing Jobs +18,000 in September
|
| |
Cybercast News Service ^
| October 5, 2018 | 8:46 AM EDT | Terence P. Jeffrey
Manufacturing jobs increased by 18,000 in the United States in September, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In August, according to the new BLS numbers, there were 12,729,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States. In September, there were 12,747,000. …
|
|
|
US manufacturing: What's it like to work in a factory?
|
| |
The British Broadcasting Corporation ^
| June 19, 2015 | Emily Young
Over the past few weeks, the BBC has been reporting on the trends in US manufacturing - the challenges of the digital age, running factories in the city and why young start-up entrepreneurs are attracted to the industry. But
what's it like to actually work in manufacturing, making the goods we use on a daily basis? And how has it changed - from Henry Ford's assembly lines to today's cutting edge factory floor? As of May 2015, there were over 12.3 million people - nearly 9% of the total US workforce - engaged in manufacturing everything from Ford Mustangs to...
|
|
|
3D Printing And The New Economics Of Manufacturing
|
| |
Forbes Leadership ^
| June 22, 2015 | Rick Smith
3D printing production is just scratching the surface of the multi-trillion dollar global manufacturing industry. But
its dominance is already inevitable.ï„¿ï„¿ This is because modern manufacturing, despite numerous technological and process advances over the last century, is still a very inefficient global system. TodayÂ’s world of mass production is based on one simple rule: the more things you make, the lower the cost of each of those things. We have literally pushed this equation to its extreme limits. This approach was dramatically accelerated by Henry Ford, arguably the most impactful character in the industrial revolution. For starters, Ford proved out...
|
|
|
RTD Manufacturing - The Great Challenge
|
| |
05/29/2016 2:30:39 PM PDT
·
by w1n1
A Shooting Journal ^
| 5/29/2016 | Dani Breteau
The American Shooting Journal sat down with Tony Hook, owner and founder of New HampshireÂ’s RTD Manufacturing, who shared how he went from ï¬xing cars for a living to manufacturing guns, as well as the trials and tribulations of what it takes to start, own and operate such a company, one that
prides itself on extremely low tolerances. American Shooting Journal: How did RTD Arms get started? Tony Hook: It was started due to a question my 14-year-old stepson Robby asked. I had just purchased a brand-new AR-15 made by one of the more recognizable manufacturers. I brought it home...
|
|