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Dec 16, 2024 · In 2024, the number of respondents indicating their employer is having trouble sourcing skilled workers dropped to 71%, 12 points lower than 2023 and 15 points lower than 2022. Taken in concert with lower salaries, higher proportions of manufacturing workers with lower ages and less experience, this suggests that manufacturing is actually moving in a positive direction on hiring — glimmers ...

Dec 26, 2024 · 5G Can Revolutionize Manufacturing. Connected devices across a plant floor generate tremendous amounts of data that, if processed correctly, yield invaluable insights into product quality, production efficiency, and operational safety among other things.

Nov 21, 2024 · As global supply chains continue to face challenges in 2024, a potential paradigm shift in U.S. trade policy looms on the horizon. The prospect of dramatically increased tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese imports and 10%-to-20% across all other trading partners, including Mexico—threatens to fundamentally reshape global supply chain landscape.

Dec 17, 2024 · U.S. industrial production continued to contract last month, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday, announcing a surprise slump and extending the decline for a third consecutive month.

Dec 27, 2024 · The third quarter was a big one in the continuous improvement world as we named our 2024 IndustryWeek Best Plants Award winners and rolled out their stories in September and October. First came the celebration of 2024 Best Plant Hoffer Plastics, whose leaders spoke of internal transparency, standout on-time delivery and embracing technology.

Jun 28, 2019 · Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospaceーnotably India.

Dec 20, 2024 · IndustryWeek’s manufacturing community delved into a wide variety of topics during the tail end of December, as evidenced by this week’s IW Weekly Reads.The Top 10 most perused content over the past seven days touched on topics ranging from augmented reality and Intel’s decision to spin off its chip foundry to why North Carolina is …

Nov 8, 2024 · It's pretty clear where our IndustryWeek manufacturing community's heads were over the past seven days as election-related coverage accounted for half of our Top 10 most popular content in our latest Weekly Reads. The conclusion of the Boeing strike, long-lived manufacturing companies and big job cuts at Nissan also attracted significant attention.

Dec 13, 2024 · Tech companies constantly offer new systems to manufacturers, promising increased productivity, lower costs, less scrap and higher profits. But, some of those shiny new items takes years to show a return if they ever do.