Issue #24 - The Future of Manufacturing

Even before COVID-19, many parts of the manufacturing industry were experiencing detrimental labor shortages. The use of automation and other systems that allow for distributed manufacturing would permit greater flexibility in where manufacturing sites were located.

Supply Chain — 75% of U.S. companies have experienced supply chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 outbreak, including mask and ventilator producers — China manufactures roughly half of the world’s masks. Countless examples of U.S. dependence on China for essential materials presents an opportunity and an economic imperative to diversify supply cha... See more

We want to bring more manufacturing back to the USA but we have to acknowledge the reality that the industry looks a lot different know than it has in the past. Industry 4.0 requires different technical skills. In addition to implementing efficient new solutions, we need to train people to use them.

If the current environment shows us anything, it’s how desperate manufacturing is for modernization. It’s time to accelerate digital transformation in one of our most essential industries.

Rising US imports of large Chinese transformers create worries about the availability of spare parts and about the potential for future grid destabilization, and there is little need to repeat the arguments about the much-publicized ban on Huawei’s participation in the 5G networks of some Western nations.[101] Not surprisingly, the reshoring of man

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涉及生产力本身、特种劳动力/军队、新一代复杂硬件链主的大国产业竞争,同时也是中国制造业优势再次出海的契机

When most people think of Chinese factories, they envision sweatshops with thousands of underpaid workers stitching together cheap shoes and teddy bears. These factories do still exist, but the Chinese manufacturing ecosystem has undergone a major technological upgrade. Today, the greatest advantage of manufacturing in China isn’t the cheap labor—c

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