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Do You Know Where Your Workforce is Tonight?

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/1280-oscar-pistorius_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" />There’s a literate, championship workforce that stands behind high tech manufacturing, but where do they come from?Full Article

The Handyman Can

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_DIY02_small.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="46" />Is there a parallel between the loss of skilled craftsmanship in the U.S. and the decline of the manufacturing sector? NCMS's Matt ...Full Article

Help Wanted

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_ADVMFG_small.jpg" alt="" width="82" height="40" />We’ve heard it again and again – even as employment struggles to regain a foothold in the United States, manufacturers flail around, ...Full Article

Wake Up, Manufacturing, You’re Late

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_UofManufacturing.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="70" />Did you know that most stuff is manufactured? I didn’t! I thought most stuff springs, fully formed, into packages, and materializes on ...Full Article

Manufacturing is Changing, and Change is Good

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_GlobalFoundries.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="55" /> Rick Jarman, President & CEO, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences takes a close look at how manufacturing is not only growing, ...Full Article

University of Toronto, IBM, Western University to Lead Research Partnership

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Canadian_consortium_cropped.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" />$210 million consortium includes governments, five more Ontario universities that are launching a bold new research and development innovation network unique in ...Full Article

President Obama Announces New Efforts to Support Manufacturing Innovation, Encourage Insourcing

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/mid-2009-04-11_President_Obama_s_Weekly_Address.ogv.jpg" alt="" width="84" height="75" />Administration proposes new national network to support manufacturing, takes immediate action to create a pilot manufacturing instituteFull Article

FACT SHEET: A Blueprint to Train Two Million Workers for High-Demand Industries through a Community College to Career Fund

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/barack-obama2_1211622c.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="58" />This Fact Sheet issued by the White House provides an overview of an initiative announced by President Obama on Feb. 13 to ...Full Article

Brain Drain

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_AviationMechanic.jpg" alt="" width="112" height="65" />Across the country, we have stigmatized skilled blue collar work, reduced support for vocational programs, and begun shepherding only “problem” kids into ...Full Article

Will the United States Lose its Science and Technology Leadership Role to the “Asia 10”?

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Boeing_787_Section_41_final_assembly.jpg" alt="" width="77" height="51" />The U.S. position as the global leader for science and technology (S&T) may soon become a thing of the past, according to ...Full Article