While U.S. workers are still losing jobs to outsourcing, a report by Ball State University finds that 87 percent of American manufacturing job losses over the last 16 years are due to productivity gains, including better supply chains, more capital investment and advancing technology.
Advanced Manufacturing is defined as the 35 industries classified as such by The Brookings Institution report, America’s Advanced Industries (Muro et al., 2015), the most comprehensive definition of advanced manufacturing now in use, according to Ball State researchers.
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Evan Jones Thorne, who served as associate editor of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine through February 2017, holds a bachelor’s degree in English and communications from Northern Illinois University. Evan joined Cutting Tool Engineering in October 2013.
