The worker shortage in manufacturing has been exacerbated by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which erased over a decade of job gains in the manufacturing sector, eliminating more than 1.4 million ...

It’s no secret that labor has been challenging manufacturers for the past several years. The world, workers and expectations have changed. While the manufacturing industry has rebounded from about 1.4 ...

US manufacturing is poised for a significant resurgence. The supply chain debacles caused by the pandemic have shown the weakness of an over-dependence on a long supply chain, especially one outside ...

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The survey reveals major trends in what challenges and opportunities manufacturers anticipate in 2026: Sixty-nine percent plan to invest in physical assets such as robots and equipment. Forty-seven ...

LOWELL, Mass. & WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthy growth in demand for manufactured goods and services, as well as year-over-year increases in production capacity, revenue, and shift work, ...

For the first time since the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, tariffs are not just a tool of U.S. economic policy — they’re its most expansive and aggressively used tool. So far, markets have responded ...

Direct manufacturing labor costs are associated with the laborers in your factory who work on the goods you're manufacturing directly. It's important to measure this cost for a small business, because ...

As we celebrate Labor Day, our nation is discovering anew the value of making and building things, from cars to semiconductor chips to steel, and to the factories where products are made. The allure ...

Perceptions of dirty, smoky work environments are not the reality of the digital-manufacturing industry. Since reaching a high-water mark in March 2015, the U.S. has lost 68,000 durable manufacturing ...

There are two different types of labor costs -- direct and indirect. The two labor cost metrics, in the manufacturing sectors, are based on the labor required to produce products versus labor ...