Manufacturing and Supply Chain Articles

China and the Future of American Jobs

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the US has imported $6,747,513,000,000 ($6.7 Trillion) in goods from China.  . Let that sink in.  . - In 2019 alone, the US imported $450 Billion from China. That’s four times the economic output of the entire state of Mississippi...
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How the West Can Win the Innovation Race With China

This is Part 2 in what will be a long-running series by Scott Holbrook and Adam-Paul Smolak on how the United States and the rest of the world can take back much of the manufacturing they sent to China and thereby bring high-level manufacturing jobs to the United...
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New project to automate 3D printing post-processing

Renishaw is collaborating with UK start-up Additive Automations, as part of a project to automate metal additive manufacturing (AM) post-processing.  . The project, which uses collaborative robots (cobots) to perform support structure removal, could reduce the average...
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Injection Printing Means 3D Printing Better Parts, Faster

One of the greatest benefits that 3D printing can offer in the fabrication of high-performance parts is speed. Users around the world continue to improve on this, reveling in both the ability to innovate like never before—as well as the rewards of cutting out the...
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