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Industry's Use of Robots Is Increasing. What Does That Mean for Your Job?

February 24, 2016

Computerworld

If a robot takes your job, don't say the government didn't warn you.

Mid-Sized Industrial U.S. Manufacturers Confident About 2016

February 19, 2016

Prime Advantage

Optimism among mid-sized manufacturing companies in the U.S. outpaces their enthusiasm for the economy as a whole, according to the 8th Annual CFO Survey from Prime Advantage.

Manufacturing Actually Accounts for Third of U.S. GDP, Not One Tenth, Research Suggests

February 19, 2016

MAPI

Two measures commonly used by the government to measure manufacturing's overall impact on society are badly underestimating the impact of that critical sector. One is the proportion of gross domestic product for which manufacturing accounts. The other is the "multiplier effect," which measures the impact on other industries from an increase in economic activity by a specific industry.

Worker Skills Gap Widens as Manufacturing Grows Smarter

February 17, 2016

EBN

As manufacturing gets smarter with Industry 4.0 and the ever-expanding Industrial Internet of Things, the workforce skills needed to deploy new technology are falling behind.

Cost of 3D Printing Expected to Drop this Year as More Vendors Enter Field

February 9, 2016

ZDNet

In a further sign of the falling barriers to hardware innovation, the price of 3D printing machines is expected to fall 6.4 percent in 2016, according to a report by market research firm IBISWorld.

HVAC Systems Market to Achieve $340Bn in Sales By 2024

February 8, 2016

Navigant Research

Global revenue from commercial energy-efficient HVAC systems is expected to total $340bn from 2015 to 2024, according to a report from Navigant Research.

U.S. Manufacturing Sector Seems to Be Contracting

February 5, 2016

Nasdaq

Demand for long-lasting manufactured products made in the U.S. fell 5.1 percent in December from a month earlier, and declined 3.5 percent for all of 2015, the Commerce Department said. The annual decline in durable-goods orders is the largest outside a recession on records back to 1992.

Smart Manufacturing Means Harnessing All That Data

February 3, 2016

Industry Week

There's a rumor going around, centered in Germany, that we're now in our fourth Industrial Revolution.

Reshoring to U.S. Is in Full Swing - Unless It's Declining. What to Believe?

January 29, 2016

Industry Week

In December, two conflicting reports were released, one by A.T. Kearney and one by the Boston Consulting Group. The A.T. Kearney report states that reshoring may be "over before it began," and the Boston Consulting Group report states that it is increasing. Why the difference in opinion and who is right?