(PDF) 'Offshoring to Reshoring' a Roadmap to Rebuilding American Manufacturing Kindle

(PDF) 'Offshoring to Reshoring' a Roadmap to Rebuilding
American Manufacturing Kindle

(PDF) 'Offshoring to Reshoring' a Roadmap to Rebuilding American
Manufacturing Kindle
Description :
This book was created to raise the alarm and to make people think about the
consequences of losing America 8217 s manufacturing capabilities and offer a
path to rebuilding it through reshoring.This book or maybe more accurately, a
long short story, is my first attempt at collecting and recording my thoughts on
a topic that has troubled me for some time, the state of manufacturing in the
US. Much like the proverbial frog that sits in a pot of water that is slowly
brought to a boil and inevitable is cooked alive, the US has watched its
manufacturing be slowly dismantled and sent offshore in the mistaken belief
we do not need it because we have become a service economy.While
manufacturing in the beginning was most certainly dirty, dark, and dangerous,
it has advanced to a very sophisticated high-tech endeavor today. But still,
when most Americans think about manufacturing, they think dirty, dark, and
dangerous, and back at the end of WWII and even into 50 8217 s and early 60
8217 s manufacturing was indeed dirty, dark, and dangerous. Back in that era
most US factories had saw-toothed roofs with multiple smokestacks belching
black acrid smoke and inside those factories it was like a vision from Dante
8217 s Inferno. 21st century manufacturing is computer driven highly
sophisticated machine tools that require a well-trained technician not a human
robot to load and unload the machine. If I have done a decent job of telling the
story of manufacturing in the US, I hope to educate Americans to the real need
to be able to make the things we consume, if we are going to continue to enjoy
the benefits of the economic engine we created throughout our history.This
book is dedicated to creating a roadmap and strategy to get us back to being a
global leader in manufacturing. Outsourcing to Reshoring 8221 is a roadmap
to rebuilding American manufacturing by first creating a rallying point and then
applying emerging state-of-the-art technologies to leapfrog back into a world

leadership role in manufacturing.Much of the industrialized world has adopted
Industry 4.0 and the US has once again been late coming to the table. If we
expect to take back the lead in manufacturing, we need to push the envelope,
and being a follower, even a fast follower won 8217 t get us there. We need to
be looking over the horizon at what 8217 s coming next. In the case of
manufacturing, we need to be focused on Industry 4.1 and beyond to Industry
5.0. That is not to say we can skip Industry 4.0, because its foundational and
we need to apply its principles to build a roadmap to Industry 5.0.This book
starts at the end of WWII when the US was truly the global leader in
manufacturing and chronicles how we lost that lead and started our
manufacturing death spiral. It more importantly lays out a roadmap, to
rebuilding manufacturing in the US starting with reshoring much of what we
offshored over the last couple of decades.Most importantly this book offers a
new strategy in the form of a Manufacturing Center of Excellence (MCOE)
concept for accelerating the journey to Industry 4.1 and beyond. The MCOE
will provide workforce development training, technical support and access to
the latest equipment including Additive Manufacturing (AM) and a suite of
technologies like modeling and simulation (M&ampS) and high-performance
computing (HPC). The MCOE can give US manufacturers the resources
necessary to compete with foreign manufacturers in China and elsewhere. The
playing field is not level, and we need to tip it back in our favor.The journey will
not be easy but the consequences of not rebuilding US manufacturing will
result in the further decline of the US economy and a downward path to
becoming a 3rd world country.Every journey starts with a first step. I believe
this book can be a motivator to taking that first step!