Key points in this episode of the Machinery Minutes podcast:
- There are significant stumbling blocks to reshoring, including our labor shortage, lack of manufacturing capacity and failure to invest in artificial intelligence, according to the annual Kearney Reshoring Index.
- China is eating our lunch when it comes to investing in automation and industrial robotics. Can plastics processors help?
- Smart technology is a smart investment. A new study from Deloitte shows improvements of up to 20 percent in production output, 20 percent in employee productivity and 15 percent in unlocked capacity.
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