Video: The Renaissance of Manufacturing!

The popular buzz is that manufacturing in North America is dead, dying, or in a continual state of decline. Politicians seem to want to wave a magic wand and ‘fix everything.’

That being said, the sector has already done a remarkable job in reinventing itself for a new world of digitization, changing business models, changes to process and optimization, competing in a post-flat world and other opportunities.

Here’s a clip from a recent manufacturing keynote I delivered in Chicago in which I look at some of these trends.