Innovation and technology helped manufacturers meet the immediate challenges in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The outcome was both a lesson in bipartisan cooperation and a living case study on the value of Industry 4.0 principles and solutions.…
The supply chain is the backbone of modern business, and it faces some unprecedented changes these days. Supply chain managers have faced an unusually extreme set of challenges amid Covid-19. These difficulties will transform the industry as the pandemic continues…
The global pandemic has been incapacitating international supply chains since early 2020 and continues to cause frequent delays from international suppliers. Hostile trade relations between the United States and China had been brewing even before COVID-19 hit, accelerating a reshoring…
Steel-tube chief launches expensive advertising buys to get peers to reconsider sourcing decisions—and rebuilding American communities. Barry Zekelman is trying to pierce through all the noise of this season of American political and social unrest with a message that he…
By Pedro Palandrani | September 11, 2020 Over the past few decades, many corporations in advanced economies took advantage of low trade barriers and globally integrated supply chains to outsource manual tasks to workers in countries with lower labor costs.…
SmarTech Analysis has published a new report on the state of metal 3D printing service bureaus dubbed “ The Market for Metal Additive Manufacturing Services: 2020-2029 .” The report illustrates the current picture of the metal additive manufacturing (AM) service…
At Thomas, we’ve been tracking supply chain shifts since the Covid-19 pandemic began and our data shows that the increased interest in reshoring is actually accelerating. The statistics are significant, too: In February, 54% wanted to bring production back to…
For decades, labor cost differences have been a primary influence in the continuous shift of manufacturing production from the U.S. to China. In 1980, the cost of labor in the U.S. was more than 30 times of that in China.…