Tag Archives: outsourcing

Designing for Reshoring: Can DFM and DFA Bring it Home?

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Pete DiLeo

By: Clare Goldsberry, Plastics Today Total cost of ownership (TCO) and total cost of management (TCM) represent a supply chain model that has been around for several decades. However, according to John Biagioni, VP of supply chain and operations for … Continue reading →

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Manufacturing Jobs Returning to U.S.

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Andrea Kay, Gannett, USA Today Who would have thought that jobs like metal-refining furnace operators and tenders would be making a comeback in the year 2012?

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Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing With Right Sizing

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Tim Hutzel, Dave Lippert and MainStream Management, LLC, Manufacturing.Net, Industry Week The story of how the United States lost its place in manufacturing dominance and why jobs were shipped offshore is highly relevant for business executives, government leaders and … Continue reading →

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How Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Arik Hesseldahl, All Things D Toward the end of last night’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, the moderator, CNN’s Candy Crowley, asked a perfectly legitimate question, one that Obama himself is once reported to … Continue reading →

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Report Heralds Revival of American Manufacturing

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design TD Economics, an affiliate of TD Bank, released a special report crediting the revival of the U.S. manufacturing sector as a key driver in the economic recovery, largely due to a slowdown in offshoring activity. … Continue reading →

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Offshore Continues to Bite Back

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Paul J. Heney, Design World I’ve been writing about the problems with offshoring—and the welcome springing back of the reshoring phenomenon for quite some time. Lately, it has been very interesting to watch how the trend is affecting more … Continue reading →

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Apple, Offshoring and the Decline of the American Middle Class

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: James A. (Jim) Smith Ph.D. ABD, Assembly magazine Working conditions continue to be an issue at the Foxconn factories in China where Apple makes its best-selling electronic gadgets. On June 19, a young man who worked at one factory … Continue reading →

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Contract Manufacturing Continues to Grow While Manufacturing Business Steadies

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

2012 Design-2-Part Survey Reveals Outsourcing Trends As American manufacturing appears to have steadied from a growth spurt seen in 2011, contract manufacturing continues a two-year trend of positive growth.

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83% of U.S. Voters Negatively View Corporations that Outsource to China

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: Tula Connell, AFL-CIO U.S. voters across the political spectrum overwhelming have negative views of companies that outsource jobs to China and strongly support Buy America provisions, according to a poll released today by the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Voters … Continue reading →

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U.S. Manufacturers Give Up on ‘Made in China’

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Pete DiLeo

By: David Rocks and Nick Leiber, Bloomberg BusinessWeek When Sonja Zozula and Jerry Anderson founded LightSaver Technologies in 2009, everyone told them they should make their emergency lights for homeowners in China. After two years of outsourcing to factories there, … Continue reading →

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