Manufacturing Trends and Overview
Our manufacturing outlook for Europe has been revised downward. The uneven recession in the Eurozone is now coupled with a downturn in the Czech Republic and sharply falling economic activity in Poland. Domestic demand continues to soften. Businesses refrain from adding to capacity despite low cost...
This week’s RAPID 2013 Conference and Exposition in Pittsburgh showcases about 130 companies involved in the fast-growing area of additive manufacturing (AM, but better known as 3D printing or rapid prototyping). The crowd of design and manufacturing engineers collecting specifications and asking...
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The Evolving World of Big Data – How Learning Needs to Change (Wed. June 19th at 11am Eastern)
The world of data is exploding at enormous rates. Most companies are only beginning to face this sudden deluge...
Vice President and Chief Economist Dan Meckstroth presents MAPI’s revised forecast for economic and manufacturing growth in the United States for 2013 and 2014. Despite the volatility and struggle for growth, economic fundamentals have definitely improved. There are a number of reasons to be...
The current state of the U.S. labor market is generating a significant conversation about the availability of skilled talent especially in light of the manufacturing renaissance underway. The creation and implementation of a sustainable pipeline of talent is integral to both human capital and...
Every four years, the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) surveys manufacturers on their energy use. The preliminary results of the most recent survey, covering the year 2010, are in the process of being released and show that the manufacturing sector’s total energy...
Recently there's been a lot of talk about the "Industrial Internet," a term coined by GE to describe the network that harnesses the power of intelligent machines and big data to gain real-time insights into everything from production bottlenecks to pending maintenance issues. According to a recent...
MAPI and The Aspen Institute developed a new econometric forecast model showing that there is ample potential for U.S. manufacturing to undergo a resurgence that by 2025 would lead to significantly more good paying manufacturing jobs, add to GDP growth, and help create the first surplus in the...
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At a time of heightened nervousness surrounding the U.S. fiscal outlook, this MAPI webinar features two noted Washington experts, Henry J. Aaron and Aric Newhouse, in a discussion of the likely outcome of the budget wars during 2013, the longer-run issues...
China has the largest manufacturing economy in the world, and it widened its lead over the United States in 2011. At its pace of growth over the decade ending in 2011, China’s manufacturing value-added measured in dollars doubled every four years. When making country comparisons, however,...