We face a serious challenge to our economic future. Our Skills Gap is quickly changing into a Body Gap. People in Wisconsin address the Skills Gap as well as anyone in the country. Unfortunately, all of this effort will not be enough to overcome changing demographics. A shrinking workforce will require companies to improve productivity […]
Happy Manufacturing Month! It’s time to celebrate! For most places in the country, the celebration started and ended on Friday with National Manufacturing Day. In over 2,600 events across the country, close to 500,000 people participated in various events designed to highlight modern manufacturing and encourage students to pursue STEM activities to fuel a manufacturing […]
Manufacturing (and the rest of our economy) faces a tumultuous market in the next few years. Accelerating change, demographic trends, and discontinuous innovation will create new challenges for all companies – but even more for manufacturers. For them, three critical elements often make the difference between success and failure for manufacturers. Talent, technology, and techniques […]
The Brookings Institute posted some exciting news this summer: Madison ranks #5 out of the top 100 metro areas in Advanced Industry growth. These are businesses that engage Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) resources and STEM employees to build cutting-edge organizations. Technology is key to these companies and manufacturing is a driver because 35 […]
