HYPERTHERM HOSTS BUILDING AMERICA CONFERENCE

摘要

U.S. manufacturers' productivity has tripled, and products of value are still made in the U.S. That was the message that Evan Smith, president of Hypertherm Inc., Hanover, N.H., gave to attendees at the company's Building America Conference in early May. Smith went on to point out that American workers are increasing productivity throughput with fewer workers than their Chinese counterparts-11 million compared to China's 110 million. And a lot of that has to do with substituting capital for labor. The U.S. is second only to Japan in the use of industrialized robots. Spending on equipment and software has increased by 31 percent, Smith added.