Can IT save U.S. manufacturing? - Product innovation and reduced cycle times versus a flood of goods from China

摘要

Since the 1970s, when Germany and Japan found success in world markets as makers of high-quality goods, it's been said the U.S. was fading as a manufacturing power. Yet today, 15 million people in the U.S. are employed in manufacturing, as was the case 20 years ago. And manufacturing furnishes 16 percent of total U.S. productivity, just as it did 20 years ago.