NLS Contracted by Chinese Firm

Northern Lights Solutions is excited to announce that we have been contracted by Jumbo Home Deco’s Shanghai Factory on a new project.  Northern Lights Solutions major clients include not only US companies but global corporations across industries.  We address challenges our clients face and solve issues by providing expert analysis and functional engineering and scientific […]

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Manufacturing Engineering for the New Toyota Camry

NLS has a long history of developing plastic parts, molds, and test fixtures. Because of this, we have been commissioned by Venture Plastics to provide manufacturing engineering services to design and develop check fixtures for its new Toyota Camry injection molding program. Confirming plastic part quality is all about understanding the functional requirements for the parts. In addition, […]

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Manufacturing Costs Changing Around the World

As basic things such as raw material, labor, and energy have become more expensive, the cost of manufacturing has naturally risen in response. These costs are expanding faster in some countries than in others; this causes a change in where goods can be manufactured more cheaply. The manufacturing costs rose from 2004 to 2014 in […]

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Reshoring and Nearshoring Lead to New Jobs

Reshoring and Nearshoring of jobs has meet the US has seen a net increase of 10,000 US manufacturing jobs in 2014 according to the Reshoring Initiative.  One of the most startling findings shows that in the past five years, almost 25% of manufactures of have reshored at least part of their operations to their home […]

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