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Aug 29, 2025

Change Doesnโ€™t Have To Be A Giant Leap, It Just Needs To Move Us Forward

Many of the most successful and widely adopted robotics programs in manufacturing arenโ€™t humanoid; theyโ€™re purpose built for specific tasks and deliver practical value. 

ByNatan Linder,

Contributor

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Aug 28, 2025

The Heavy Metal Summer Experience Helps Industry Introduce Students To The Skilled Trades

This industry-backed non-profit offers hands-on summer camp experiences to high school students and recent graduates to introduce them to the building trades.

ByJim Vinoski,

Contributor

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Aug 28, 2025

How AI Is Solving America's $1 Trillion Manufacturing Labor Crisis

America faces 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2030, costing $1 trillion annually. See how AI startups like Laborup are solving the crisis.

ByDasha Shunina,

Contributor

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Aug 27, 2025

AI Job Disruption: What It Means For Companies And Competitiveness

AI job disruption is real. For companies, replacing entry-level jobs may cut costs today but risks long-term growth, innovation, and leadership development.

ByAndrea Hill,

Contributor

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Aug 27, 2025

AI Replacing Entry-Level Jobs: The Impact On Workers And The Economy

AI replacing entry-level jobs is narrowing the talent pipeline, slowing wage growth, and putting long-term innovation and economic competitiveness at risk.

ByAndrea Hill,

Contributor

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Aug 26, 2025

De Minimis Disruption: Can It Open Doors For Small U.S. Manufacturers?

With the U.S. ending its $800 de minimis exemption Aug. 30, small and mid-sized businesses face rising costsโ€”yet also a chance to rethink supply chains.

ByAndrea Hill,

Contributor

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Aug 22, 2025

Higher Education's Detroit Moment: How The Knowledge Economy Factory Broke Down

Higher education isnโ€™t a cathedral of learningโ€”itโ€™s a factory. And right now, that factory looks a lot like Detroit in the 1970s.

ByTrond Arne Undheim,

Contributor

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Aug 21, 2025

More And More Chinese Factories Are Going โ€œLights Out.โ€ Should We Be Worried?

China has factories that are increasingly operating independent of human interaction. Can, and should, America compete with these "lights out factories"?

ByEthan Karp,

Contributor

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Aug 21, 2025

Is MayMaanโ€™s Modern Take On The Steam Engine The Future Of Energy?

The Aquastroke engine from MayMaan uses a water-alcohol mixture for fuel, reducing emissions and increasing performance over legacy ICE engines

ByJim Vinoski,

Contributor

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Aug 21, 2025

Why 95% Of AI Pilots Fail, And What Business Leaders Should Do Instead

Strategy, culture, and integrationโ€”not technologyโ€”determine whether your AI implementation creates business value, or if it becomes another AI pilot failure.

ByAndrea Hill,

Contributor

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Aug 21, 2025

The Future Of Asset-Intensive Supply Chains

The future of asset-intensive supply chains relies on the transformation AI will deliver for Enterprise Asset Management

ByPaul J. Noble,

Contributor

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Aug 19, 2025

Kendra Scott And The Vision And Discipline Of Growth

Kendra Scottโ€™s return as interim CEO highlights the need for vision and discipline in growth, showing how leaders can scale while protecting brand and culture.

ByAndrea Hill,

Contributor

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Aug 18, 2025

Detroit Focuses On Driving Down EV Prices

This weekโ€™s Current Climate newsletter also looks at plans to save Californiaโ€™s troubled bullet train and designing next-generation EVs in the age of Trump

ByAlan Ohnsman,

Forbes Staff

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Aug 16, 2025

Plastics Manufacturing At Crossroads: Pivot To Lead Or Lose

Plastics at a crossroads: why petrochemical lock-in blocks change, how recycling myths persist, and when bottle standardization could finally gain traction.

ByTrond Arne Undheim,

Contributor

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Aug 14, 2025

Trumpโ€™s Tariffs: Why Retail Could Look To China

Deep dive into 2025โ€™s shifting U.S. tariffs, from โ€˜Liberation Dayโ€™ to China and India moves, with inflation impacts, court challenges, and holiday retail risks.

ByBrian Delp,

Contributor

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Aug 14, 2025

Letโ€™s Talk About Drones: We Canโ€™t Fly The Future If We Canโ€™t Build It

Accelerating U.S. drone manufacturing requires more than funding and regulatory support, we also need production systems built for modern aerospace and defense.

ByNatan Linder,

Contributor

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Aug 12, 2025

The Small Business Technology Gap, And How To Bridge It

What must we do to close the technology gap, increase competitiveness, and help small businesses grow in a rapidly changing digital marketplace?

ByAndrea Hill,

Contributor