Volatility and uncertainty in supply chains During the pandemic, world trade in goods has benefited from the global recovery in retail sales and industrial production, while other sectors remain much harder-hit by lockdowns and uncertainty, so much so that global trade’s…
Washington — The Biden Administration issued a proposed rule Wednesday that would raise the requirement for American-made parts in products purchased with taxpayer dollars to 75% by 2029. Under the proposed rule, a product would immediately have to meet a threshold of…
MUNICH – Automobile and electronics manufacturers worldwide have recently had to reduce output because a severe drought in Taiwan has hit the island’s production of semiconductors. This and other global supply-chain disruptions – many of them caused by the COVID-19…
The pandemic sent numerous shock waves through the world of small and medium- sized manufacturers (SMMs), and perhaps the most lasting have been disruptions and changes in the global supply chain. SMMs are now dealing with the reality that uncertainty…
In the past several decades, there has been a growing amount of manufacturing and supply chain work moving out of the U.S. and across oceans instead. However, that has begun to shift back in the past decade or so, as…
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 is a date supply chain managers will want to mark on the calendar. This date—the day of the Chinese New Year—is when many industry experts estimate the disruptions and delays currently upending global supply chains will…
The pandemic continues to drive interesting trends in the manufacturing universe, even as COVID-related restrictions ease and businesses across most industries are beginning to return to some semblance of normal. Earlier this year MD+DI spoke with Tony Uphoff, president and CEO of…
Reshoring Canada is a new non-partisan organization that advocates for Canadian supply chain modernization and resiliency and promotes modern and secure reshoring measures. It was created by a group of former parliamentarians that includes me, a former federal industry minister;…
Kristi Zentner and Heather Marx, attorneys in the Customs, Imports & Trade Remedies Practice Group of Cozen O’Connor, discuss how the recommendations of Biden’s supply chain task force might lead to real progress toward the return of domestic manufacturing of critical…
For industrial investors, there’s gold in the heartland — a “Golden Triangle,” that refers to the region of the country stretching from Illinois to Texas to Georgia and is poised to see some of the best opportunities for industrial in…
There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted business practices across industry segments worldwide. Manufacturing was no exception and 2021 will be the year of reinvention through an emphasis on transforming business models. The best manufacturers embrace change…
Whether it’s a continuation of the first wave or the start of a second wave, it’s patently clear that COVID-19 is not taking the summer off. All the more reason to apply lessons learned when the pandemic first rolled across…
It’s too soon to gauge the ultimate result of the Biden administration’s efforts to address long-standing vulnerabilities in the nation’s supply chains. But findings from the comprehensive Executive Order (E.O.) 14017 “America’s Supply Chains” released on June 8th set out…
Lateral flow immunoassay (LFI) rapid diagnostic tests play an essential role in the fight against COVID-19’s spread, but before the pandemic erupted, many LFI devices were imported into the United States from lower-cost-manufacturing countries. As was the case with numerous…