To be sure, AI will not render people outside of manufacturing jobless either. AI is a tool, immensely powerful but still ...

American manufacturing has been a hot topic recently, with headlines often containing heavy keywords, such as challenges and closures. However, in Ohio, a family-owned leader in plumbing and piping ...

However, there were 292,825 factories in the U.S. as of 2021. Of those, 846 employ 1,000 people or more. Some of these are my engineering firm’s clients, giving us a front row seat to the complexity ...

At the G-7 meetings in Canada last week, President Trump reaffirmed his commitment to put American manufacturing workers first. Our president previously told thousands of steel workers in Pennsylvania ...

American industry has certainly been in decline. Overall production has flatlined for the best part of 20 years, even as services have ballooned ...

Automation has been making manufacturing more productive, cost-efficient, competitive and safe since the first Industrial Revolution. Today, tariff policies, the shift toward onshoring and reshoring, ...

American manufacturing faces a critical talent shortage. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported nearly half a million job openings in the industry as of April 2025. Compounding this, Deloitte ...

President Donald Trump has made it a cornerstone of his campaign to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States. He envisions a future where jobs and factories return to the country, creating a ...

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The data are becoming impossible to ignore: American manufacturers desperately need relief from the very same tariffs that the Trump administration incoherently believes are helping American ...