We need the workforce to realize the dream of "Made in America"
Eliminating supply chain disruptions is displacing cost as a key factor in manufacturing investment decisions. Companies are reshoring...
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Doug Berger
Dec 8, 20211 min read
What is (and isn’t) Industry 5.0?
Michael Rada, founder: "Industry 5.0 was introduced to build a wasteless world by implementing systematic waste prevention in all aspects...
Doug Berger
Dec 6, 20211 min read
Manufacturing Doesn’t Need More Workers, It Needs the Right Ones
IndustryWeek interview with Jeremy Frank, KCF Technologies. Manufacturing is facing one of its largest disruptions—digital...
Doug Berger
Sep 29, 20211 min read
Supply Chain Stability and Workforce Agility Are the New Competitive Advantages in Manufacturing
Companies can take more control over ways future disruptions impact their operations. Manufacturers are doubling down on digital...
Doug Berger
Sep 29, 20211 min read
Manufacturers look close to home as global supply chains are upended
It took a single COVID-19 case among the dockworkers for China to partly shut the world’s third-busiest container port for two weeks this...
Doug Berger
Sep 14, 20211 min read
The WHYs around Decline Productivity in Advanced Economies
excerpted from McKinsey Global Institute research While there are many schools of thought, we find three waves collided to produce a...
Doug Berger
Aug 25, 20211 min read
Asset RELIABILITY is a huge opportunity for US competitiveness
This is excerpted from and Industry Week article "Reliability approach to asset uptime" by Jill Jusko https://www.industryweek.com/operat...
Doug Berger
Aug 25, 20211 min read
Why The Path To Recovery Requires A Return To ‘Made In The USA’
We need to recognize that while government policies and incentives are a boost, the roadmap for the private sector includes People ...
Doug Berger
Aug 24, 20211 min read
ITC study: Little or no U.S. gain from trade agreements
The Big Picture: The Coalition for Prosperous America summarizes a recent report from International Trade Commission economists....
Doug Berger
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Digital Lean comes of age
The Big Picture: Digital Lean is the convergence of lean management practices, design thinking, advanced digital technologies, and...
Doug Berger
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Unfilled manufacturing jobs underscores need for a paradigm shift
Evidence of 'vibrant opportunity": 83% of manufacturers are “likely” or “extremely likely” to replace at least one overseas supplier...
Doug Berger
Aug 19, 20211 min read
The Bill That Could Truly, Actually Bring Back U.S. Manufacturing
Establishing an Industrial Finance Corporation would fill the gap between the US as the world-class innovator and the US as a world-class...
Doug Berger
Jul 26, 20211 min read
The Manufacturing Talent Pipeline Is Broken. With Radical Collaboration, We Can Fix It
How NE Ohio is coming together, companies, educational institutions, communities and non-profits to raise awareness and create innovative...
Doug Berger
Jul 13, 20211 min read
Future of Manufacturing is an Inclusive Workforce
The past year has brought fresh attention to the role of manufacturing in our economy and its potential to power an inclusive recovery. ...
Doug Berger
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Virginia reimagines educating the New Collar workforce
Virginia has a premier regional education organization that is well-established in the Hampton Road region. It is the New Horizons...
Doug Berger
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Reimagining Education for the New Collar Workforce
There are many troubling facts regarding the readiness of people entering the manufacturing workforce. There are systemic failures but...
Doug Berger
Apr 16, 20211 min read
McKinsey Institute: Building a more competitive manufacturing sector
Effective transformation of the manufacturing sector could boost GDP by $275 billion to $460 billion and add 1.5 million jobs. If the...
Doug Berger
Apr 16, 20211 min read
How New Manufacturing Technologies are Driving Business-Model Innovation (World Economic Forum)
Technological advances are transforming factories and creating new partnership ecosystems, which are allowing new business models to...
Doug Berger
Apr 16, 20211 min read
2020, the bottom of the long decline in U.S. Manufacturing?
by Scott Davis, Melius Research The U.S. manufacturing industry has experienced a lifetime of trauma over the past two decades—but we...
Doug Berger
Apr 16, 20211 min read
Industry Reimagined 2030
Over the next decade - a generational sea-change in U.S. industry from a worldview of inevitable decline to one of vibrant opportunity
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