Worker confidence in the manufacturing industry has peaked for the first time in four years. Reshoring and the increasingly innovative culture among manufacturers are two key factors driving this optimism.
A range of experts – from the National Association of Manufacturers to academic researchers to government policymakers – are cautiously upbeat on the prospects for U.S. manufacturing, aided in part by forces that are making it more advantageous to bring production back to the United States that had been sourced in China and Asian markets.