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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

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Approximately 60 percent of today's unfilled manufacturing jobs are due to a shortage of applicants with sufficient proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math ( STEM ) skills. IMPO Executive Editor, Anna Wells provides insights into the complicated issue in her article “Why The Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Serious”.

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How Do We Know National Network for Manufacturing Innovation is Working? Because China is Copying It.

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In this post, Adam discusses the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation or NNMI and how it relates to the Made in China 2025 initiative. . model, aggressively integrating Internet of Things technology into manufacturing and targeting specific advanced industries in which they hope to succeed. The difference?

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IoT Benefits for Supply Chain Operations

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He observes, “The good news is that, given our research suggests a lack of understanding rather than a complete lack of interest, the industry redoubling its efforts to educate and inform manufacturers should be able to turn this situation around. It’s now up to IoT providers to ensure that manufacturers don’t get left behind.”[1]

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Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications

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And that number is expected to reach more than 18 billion by 2025. And the effects of the use of mobile devices and enabled communications on manufacturing, for example, have been staggering. Bell had a life-long relationship with Helen Keller , supporting her education and encouraging her progress. Mobile devices changed that.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

Enterra Insights

Journalist Rebecca Stewart ( @BereccaStewart ) reports, “According to a World Economic Forum forecast, in a shift likely to worsen inequality, half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025. ” Many pundits argue we are not doing as much as we can to educate and train workers during this ante-post-work world.

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Tighten Up: India and China boost medical device regulations

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India and China have both recently introduced new regulation that will impact medical device manufacturers. Both actions could relieve common headaches for medical device manufacturers. China, too, has faced problems with medical device manufacturing.

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How Have Robotics & Automation Changed the Manufacturing Employment Landscape?

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a provider of integrated material handling and storage systems for industrial operations, is the first post in which we will have a few blog posts on robotics, jobs, and how millennials figure into the future of manufacturing. Robotics & Automation in the Manufacturing Employment Landscape. We hope you enjoy! in April to 48.8