Manufacturing Industry Topics

With all the discussion about the renaissance of U.S. manufacturing, inshoring and insourcing, IW gathered these essential resources to provide you with an historical perspective of how outsourcing--specifically off-shore outsourcing of production--has been viewed over the years. Reviewing these articles will provide you with the arguments for and against off-shore outsourcing, the strategies associated with leveraging U.S. production (or onshore production in other countries), and show how the strategy has changed in the past decade.

Called a revolutionary, disruptive advance by some and dismissed as an infant technology by others, after decades in the fringe additive manufacturing is finally finding a place in the mainstream manufacturing conversation. Visit this page to follow as this conversation develops and new applications of the technologies are explored and tested in the manufacturing arena.