As the Skilled Labor Force Disappears, How Can Manufacturing Grow?

For years, economists and business consultants warned us that a huge gap in skilled labor was coming and that it would be a challenge for our economy.

In 2015, Deloitte predicted, “Over the next decade nearly 3 ½ million manufacturing jobs likely need to be filled. The skills gap is expected to result in two million of those jobs going unfulfilled.”

Today, everyone in manufacturing is seeing that prediction coming true. The gap is continuing to widen and affect vastly different industries—from food and beverage factories to electronics manufacturers. Unfortunately, when your plant location is short on skilled labor to diagnose […]

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