Tim Barcher Tim Barcher

Skills and Training for Reshoring Success

The Importance of Workforce Training for Reshoring Success

Despite the obvious reasons to bring our manufacturing sector back to life via reshoring and Foreign Direct Investment, there seems to be no shortage of hand-wringing worriers in the think tank business that complain that the United States isn’t ready for bringing jobs back.  The most common cause of worry – the lack of skilled workers.

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Tim Barcher Tim Barcher

Technology Advancements on Reshoring

Leveraging the Latest Technologies for Improved Operations

Well into the 1970s, American manufacturing was generally fat, dumb, and happy. The post-war industrial landscape in Europe and Asia was in rebuilding mode, and American manufacturing became driven by layers of supervision and was run mainly through the use of manual documentation. Technology needed to evolve, and it took too long to save a lot of jobs.

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