Manufacturing Resources

Today, on our 12th year anniversary (oh yeah…and Valentine’s Day!), we launched the 10th edition of our MFGWatch Survey. The results are extremely interesting and very encouraging for the state of North American manufacturing and where we are heading.

For complete results, visit our MFGWatch.

Here are a few highlights from the Q4 2011 results:

As many of you know, we recently launched a Packaging Marketplace...for those of you who don't - where have you been?! Just kidding!

Sustainability in Manufacturing Webinar

We are hosting a webinar (Free!) one week from today (9/22) at 2pm EST called "Supporting Manufacturing Through Sustainability".  Please join us!

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday August 24th from 2:00 - 3:00pm for a free webinar hosted by MFG.com called "To Offshore or Reshore? How to Objectively Decide".

Recent reports by Boston Consulting and Accenture call for substantial amounts of offshored manufacturing to come back to the U.S. by 2015 due to the rising offshore wages and currency appreciation.

MFG.com is hosting a Supplier Development Webinar called "Job Shop Scheduling: How to get More Jobs Done Faster" on Wednesday, March 16th at 4pm EST. Space is limited to the first 100 Suppliers, so sign up today!

After a run through the online jobs landscape looking for relevant manufacturing employment opportunities, it looks like you're gonna find one of two things - sites with a tight focus on manufacturing and few jobs, or lots of jobs but a loose definition.

Last week, MFG.com COO Steve Cook presented a webinar titled "Lean Manufacturing For Your Enterprise," as an introduction and overview for manufacturers considering embarking on a Lean journey.

There have been a couple of interesting developments lately for machinists on the online front.

We just presented a webinar this afternoon, and here's the posted recording:

There's help for U.S. small- and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) that have been negatively affected by outsourcing of work to foreign countries.