workforce development

Toyota Invests $1M in Workforce Program

February 6, 2020

GIBSON COUNTY, IN —Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana has announced a $1 million commitment over the next four years to a new, regional workforce program in Gibson County.

Alabama Trains Workforce in Robots and Tech to Stay Competitive

January 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, AL—Alabama economic development leaders have rolled out a plan to keep the state competitive in the global manufacturing revolution.

White paper – Crisis in Manufacturing

August 1, 2019

The past few years have seen a significant imbalance between the number of available job openings in manufacturing in comparison to people available to fill them.

Psychological benefits drive employee engagement

John Sprovieri

July 9, 2019

Organizations spend billions of dollars on tools to bolster employee engagement, but the return on those investments is unclear.

Manufacturers must promote themselves to attract workers

John Sprovieri

June 3, 2019

Some 12,838,000 million Americans held manufacturing jobs in April 2019. That's 12 percent more than in April 2010, it's the highest total since December 2008.

Workforce Development in the Era of Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 will change how we define manufacturing work

Zoe Leduc

May 14, 2019

The fourth industrial revolution has begun and with it, comes changes to the way manufacturing work is done. New technology, such as collaborative robots, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and machine learning, aims to make manufacturing safer, more efficient and faster than ever before.

Automation and Robotics Will Strengthen Manufacturing Competitiveness

John Sprovieri

January 3, 2019

Manufacturing had a great year in 2018, and 2019 promises to be as good. However, clouds are on the horizon.

Research Project Studies Attitude on Assembly Lines

July 3, 2018

A little positive feedback at work can go a long way toward improving assemblers' long-term mental health and well-being. Engineers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the European Factory2Fit research consortium are studying the effects of work performance.

Indiana Spends $1 Billion on Workforce Development Annually

February 20, 2018

INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana has 85,000 unfilled jobs because employers can’t find skilled workers. To help solve that problem, the state spends some $1 billion annually on workforce development programs.

Which candidates will best support U.S. manufacturing?

Harry Moser

August 4, 2016

Our government could do a lot more to level the playing field for manufacturing. While the Reshoring Initiative does not support individual candidates, we do recommend policies that will bring manufacturing back from offshore, and we try to document candidate positions on these issues.