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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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