A new Boston Consulting Group report says to succeed, manufacturers need to reimagine operations from end to end.

Manufacturing does not have to begin with millions. But it does have to begin with clarity, capital discipline, structured ...

Manufacturing rarely announces its reinventions dramatically. Change arrives instead through pressure on energy, labor, and supply chains. Over the past year, those pressures have converged to drive a ...

However, there were 292,825 factories in the U.S. as of 2021. Of those, 846 employ 1,000 people or more. Some of these are my engineering firm’s clients, giving us a front row seat to the complexity ...

Eighty-six percent of manufacturing leaders believe the technologies they adopt today will be the main driver of competitiveness in the next five years. Yet, for many manufacturing leaders, navigating ...

This is the ninth article in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic ...

For decades, Connecticut — and much of the United States — has wrestled with the thorny problem of how to rebuild its once vibrant manufacturing industries in the face of lower-cost competition from ...

The quest to shape our understanding of AI is occurring at the same time that we’re experimenting with its potential applications, from designing through integration of products and processes.

“Do you know what really impresses me? I saw a robot pick up an egg!’’ exclaimed Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, in 1985. The American carmaker, which two decades earlier had been the first ...

This is Part 3 in our Planet Money newsletter series on manufacturing in America. Part 1 asked why Americans aren't filling the manufacturing jobs that are already here. Part 2 dived deep into ...

Xiaomi's smart factory in Changping, Beijing, stands at the forefront of a global manufacturing shift. This 96,900 square-yard facility uses advanced robotics and AI to operate without any human ...

The U.S. job market has been cooling, and it’s only getting harder for Americans to find a job. One sector that has proved tougher than most is manufacturing. President Trump has promised a ...