Manufacturing- Good Economic News
Sales of precision machined products are up 15% year to date. A manufacturing career or investment is outperforming most others…
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Time Lapse Legos- Ford Explorer
Engineers at Ford Chicago build a full size Ford Explorer using Legos.
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More Reasons to be Bullish about Manufacturing
Manufacturing continues to lead the economy despite the naysayers in the press. Forbes Blogger Jon Bruner provides the facts.
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Robots Bring Students Understanding Of Manufacturing
Manufacturing is a vital part of the economy in Lake County and the state of Ohio. And for 10 teams of highschoolers, its a vital part of understanding a bright future for themselves.
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Athlete, Engineer, Physician, Machinist- What Are The Chances?
The odds are pretty slim you’ll make it into professional athletics.Time spent on math and science can assure you of a well paying professional career, even if you choose not to go to college. Professional Athletes: 16,500 positions; Average Salary $79,460; source BLS 2008 http://www.bls.gov/k12/sports02.htm Professional Engineers: 1,600,000 positions; Average Salary $79,000 (my quick estimate from…
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Apprenticeships vs Education?
Economic performance seems to be negatively correlated with Post secondary educational attainment in the country’s population in this Eurostat chart. Germany ranks near the bottom in Educational attainment, but has a strong apprenticeship program which I believe might in part explain its economic success- strong manufacturing.
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5 Customer Benefits to Reshoring
5 benefits our customers can realize by reshoring/backshoring include Reduce pipeline and surge inventory impacts on JIT operations;
Improve the quality and consistency of inputs;
Cluster manufacturing near R&D facilities, enhancing innovation;
Reduce IP and regulatory compliance risk;
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Manufacturing Continues To Outperform Broader Economy
Manufacturing continues to outperform the pace of growth in the general ecoenomy during this recovery.
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Manufacturing Has Changed
There is a skilled Labor Shortage here in the US. Low skill low wage jobs are shrinking. What remains are high skill, high thinking, high value jobs. Now is a great time for talented young people to enter Manufacturing and acquire skills for success.
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Free TRI Toxic Release Reporting Webinar
If your company had 10 or more full time employees or 20,000 employee hours the prior year and you are in MANUFACTURING (old SIC codes 20XX-39XX) We strongly urge you to attend this free webinar.