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Manufacturing is growing in the United States. It’s just not the traditional form of manufacturing that’s on the rise.
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You’ve been hearing about it for a decade or more. The skills gap is coming. The skills gap is here. The skills gap will be the death knell for U.S. industry.
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During a panel discussion at the recently concluded FABTECH show in Atlanta, economist Chris Kuehl and Reshoring Institute Executive Director Rosemary Coates spent much of their hour on stage talking about the state of manufacturing and the most pressing issue facing manufacturers – filling openings on the shop floor and elsewhere in the operation.
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In every way, this year’s show set records. Registrations totaled 129,415 individuals, 6.2 percent better than the record number of attendees set in 1998. Exhibitor companies grew 6.4 percent to 2,563 over last year, using a record 1.42 million square feet of floor space.
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Two week back, I joined a couple of other Metal Center News employees, and thousands of other interested people, in attending the biennial International Manufacturing Technology Show at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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If capital outlays on heavy equipment are one sign of a healthy metals industry, 2018 could be shaping up as a very good year. The Fabricators and Manufacturers Association surveyed its members about their capital spending plans for 2018.
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The Fabricators and Manufacturers Association surveyed more than 400 of its readers about their capital spending plans for 2018. The trade group released the results of their survey during an economic outlook breakfast during the November FABTECH event at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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In less than two weeks, the metals industry will descend on Chicago for FABTECH, one of North America’s largest trade shows for processors, fabricators and manufacturers.
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Bushman Equipment, Menomonee Falls, Wis., is displaying its FLIP-RITE load-flipping device for structural steel at its FABTECH booth.
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Bradbury Group, Moundridge, Kan., has introduced the Flat Trak CL monitoring system on its hydraulic leveling technology.
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Saw blade manufacturer Simonds Saw, Fitchburg, Mass., will offer visitors a free “Simonds Outstanding Blade” of choice at FABTECH.
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LINACUT from Dimeco has been designed to cut sheet metal up to 4 millimeters thick. LINACUT uses a coil handling line, a continuous laser cutting module and a fully automated part-downloading system.
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AIDA-America Corp., Dayton, Ohio, will display two servo presses at FABTECH. The AIDA DSF-C1-1500, a 150-ton, gap frame servo press, will blank HSLA material and demonstrate AIDA’s Silent Blanking motion profile which can only be achieved using a servo press.
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Cincinnati Incorporated will demonstrate its ever-increasing line of metal fabrication equipment at FABTECH.
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Koike Aronson, Arcade, N.Y., will display its Universal Controller at FABTECH. The controller offers precise automated positioning to users.
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Chris Kuehl, chief economist for the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association International, told attendees at the joint meeting of the Association of Steel Distributors and Association of Women in the Metal Industries to expect a lot of the same on the political and economic front in the coming months.
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