Here's how manufacturing leaders can help their businesses prepare for the changes likely to come in 2026 and beyond.

Workforce demographics are evolving, and the manufacturing industry could be on the brink of a potential labor shortage. The U.S. faces a projected 2.1 million unfulfilled jobs by 2030, resulting from ...

Strong compensation and automation have driven the trend, experts said. A surge of women in the manufacturing industry in recent years has punctured the stereotypes of who is working in American ...

Records of American women being a part of the manufacturing workforce have been documented as far back as 1899. At that time, it was cheaper to pay women to work in factories than men. Women’s ...

The end goal of any company is a satisfied customer. The process of locating, obtaining and transporting the inputs needed to do this is the core function of supply chain management. Specifically in ...

U.S. factories ended 2025 on a weak note, closing out a year-long slump that now spans nearly the entire industrial landscape. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its Manufacturing PMI fell ...

Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing manufacturing by integrating Internet of Things, cloud computing, analytics, AI, and machine learning into manufacturing and its supporting operations. Smart factories ...

The economist Donald Boudreaux has said that “free trade improves efficiency and innovation.” He reasons that free trade, along with other market forces, shifts the workforce to “more productive uses, ...

Semiconductors or microchips are the foundational components powering the modern technological landscape. These tiny electronic devices process, store, and transmit data in various electronic devices, ...

Down 0.7 points from September, the ISM (Institute for Supply Management) Manufacturing PMI registered 46.5% in October, indicating contraction at a faster rate. “This is the lowest Manufacturing PMI ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Econofact. It has been nearly two years since the Trump administration first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum. New data and research are ...

Qatar's manufacturing sector achieved record results in 2025, contributing more than QR69.3bn to the national economy, with e ...