Reshoring Allows Universities to Provide Significant Expertise

Today, we discuss how Universities provide services to support reshoring products back to the United States. Let’s face it – when corporations decided to offshore manufacturing, they did not plan to bring it back. There’s no muscle memory for reshoring, we will need the help of the academic community to round out the skills gaps to make sure the reshoring occurs smoothly.

The Essential Products Best Suited for Reshoring

HermitCrab argues government funding of favored industries is misguided and wasteful. If we intend to regain our manufacturing base, we need a multi-pronged approach that includes long-term incentives, a tariff policy to supports green-shoot manufacturing, and a national conversation about why spending an extra dollar on a rake or shovel at a hardware store is good for America.

Not Every Reshoring Plan is Equally Good for America

Even in the mid-to-late 80s, American companies were using offshore suppliers to do the “hard work”, while finishing the product assembly in the US and calling it “Made in America”. This is one of many versions of reshoring being deployed today, and while it is certainly a job creating possibility, it's a little bit like consuming a Twinkie™- it might look good and taste good, but it's full of empty calories.

How to Effectively Create the Reshoring Strategy

The United States has been fat, dumb, happy, and mostly oblivious to our decline as a nation. We sit in a hot-tub paradigm of profit-seeking and taking the easy way out. It is time for us to shift our paradigm back to doing the hard work of reshoring, but we need to start with a little inspiration. Let’s talk about the Strategy of Reshoring. The perspiration will come in a later class.

How Reshoring Can Revive Small Towns & Communities

Mill towns are a thing of the past, but serve to remind us that changes are always on the horizon, either better (new forms of power allowed larger factories to rise away from the water) or worse (offshoring to our adversaries). The net effect is that small towns suffered, shriveled, and shuttered. Only a manufacturing renaissance can bring some of these towns back to life. We need to start now.