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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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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 […]
A paper just published in Nature by Hansoo Kim from the University of Science and Technology in South Korea demonstrates that by manipulating the structure of steel on a nano-meter scale, you can create a new steel alloy that is stronger and lighter than titanium but at a tenth the […]
As companies continue to grow, processes become more and more important. There just isn’t time to rethink how to do each task. As a small engineering firm, we knew the details of each and every project and constantly communicated as we worked. Now that we are twice the size and […]