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AUGUST 20, 2015

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

2014 to Today and beyond: The Rise of Industry 4.0. Our recent survey of the American public’s opinion on manufacturing reveals that throughout one of the most turbulent periods in US economic history, they have maintained remarkably consistent views, year after year, on the importance of manufacturing. Click for Bigger Graphic.

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MARCH 6, 2015

million manufacturing jobs would have been created through the third quarter of 2014. This report uses a unique data set from the American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the distribution of employment in each state and congressional district. In 2013, the U.S. manufacturing sector directly employed 12 million workers, or about 8.8

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MARCH 9, 2015

After a lackluster 2014, optimism is back in the market. A recent survey conducted by ETF has revealed that 3PL service providers are quite optimistic regarding their company’s business prospects in the next 12 months. Cautious Optimism Abound in the Logistics Outsourcing Outlook.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Additionally, 81 percent of students who participated in Manufacturing Day 2015 who were surveyed showed an increased interest in pursuing a manufacturing career. On September 29th, 2014, $450 million were appropriated in grants to community colleges and trade schools for students to further this cause.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

The primary consumer and investor of robots in North America, the automotive industry, decreased robot ordering from 41 percent in 2005 to 21 percent in 2014. The trend for better, smarter robotics is spreading to new industries as well. So, how does this affect the workforce.

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APRIL 4, 2016

These recall counts point to sizeable growth over the past decade in the recall notices of Chinese-made consumer goods from 58 in 2002 to 153 in 2014. The CPSC publishes online a listing of recalls by country or administrative area of manufacture and year. This is not surprising given the sharp rise in goods imported from China.

Manufacturing Procurement 53

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday we had said we concluded our most popular blog posts by category for the blog posts written from our major categories for 2014. We featured out of our 200 plus blog posts in 2014, over 50 blog posts in the manufacturing category. Top 11 thru 20 Most Popular Manufacturing Blog Posts of 2014. Read the Full Blog Post.

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