The American economy has lost nearly 5.8 million manufacturing jobs over the last two decades. Today, over 75% of U.S. manufacturers employ 20 or fewer workers. Although these small companies account for just 9% of the country’s manufacturing jobs, “they are by and large the types of businesses that have been growing and creating jobs” since the Great Recession, writes Kim Gittleson of the BBC News.
What happens when a General Electric scientist retires, taking with him or her more than 30 years of experience working on the next big idea? A new network of engineers and scientists called Wise Labs is looking to solve that problem. Read this and other top stories in this week’s manufacturing news roundup.
While manufacturing has never been more important to the American economy, many manufacturers report that they are unable to fill positions requiring skilled workers, according to the latest report from the National Academy of Engineering. Read this and other top news stories in this week’s manufacturing roundup.
Penny Pritzker, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has announced the extension of a billion-dollar program that’s designed to accelerate the resurgence of American manufacturing. The Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) will designate up to 12 additional regions as “manufacturing communities” under the latest round of the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) initiative.
ThermoLift had the unique opportunity to attend and exhibit our technology at the 2015 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. The event brings together the very best
In this week’s New York State manufacturing news, many are concerned about recent studies that project a growing shortage of skilled workers over the next decade. Other top stories discuss innovation in the Hudson Valley, entrepreneurship in the U.S., and 3-D printing.
New York State’s medical technology industry is home to multinationals such as Welch Allyn and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and to startup companies whose innovative ideas could be the next big thing. For medical device manufacturers of all sizes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent announcement about expediting the regulatory process is welcome news.
Are you getting the most value from your engineering department? Do engineers have time for tasks that are critical to your company’s long-term success, or are they so busy with today’s projects that there’s too little time to mitigate tomorrow’s risks? In a recent survey from IHS Engineering360 Media Solutions, many engineers reported tighter resource constraints, a faster pace of work, and increasingly complex designs. What does this mean for your manufacturing business both today and tomorrow?
June 14-17, 2015 The Council of Great Lakes Governors is leading a multi-sector trade mission to Montréal, Canada from June 14-17, 2015. The mission is
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