This is hardly a new phenomenon – in 1992, Ross Perot labelled Nafta the "giant sucking sound to the south" that would draw manufacturing jobs to Mexico.
His audiences seem to respond the most when he talks about the need for a reformed tax code that could help draw manufacturing back to Iowa, which has struggled like much of the Midwest with losing jobs overseas.
Echoes of that Civic Gospel can be heard in the pride with which Brummies speak of the new library of Birmingham, which opened last year to great acclaim, the biggest in Europe; or in the prospects for the city's ability to draw manufacturing and digital industries if the HS2 rail link to London opens at the currently derelict Curzon Street station in 2026.
Early 1900's: Waves of European immigrants, drawn by manufacturing industry, begin to arrive.
Globalization has opened the American economy to direct competition from abroad, as well as drawn many manufacturing operations out of the country.
These techniques are combined in a Foresight exercise assessing development of clean production in metal manufacturing, drawing on the European CLEANPROD project.
Opportunities accrue from a broader, more customized product space and accelerated dynamic, and precision manufacturing, drawing upon the cumulative impacts of every step across entire enterprise value and supply chains.
At less than four year old, the program is still in its infancy, but the initiative is drawing praise from manufacturing leaders, including Proto Labs PRLB +0.42%, the technology-enabled quick-turn manufacturer of plastic and metal prototype parts I work for in Minnesota.
It outlines typical examples of ship structure, shipyard layout and shipbuilding process is given, together with a description of the links between the design, drawing and manufacturing process.
The survey, which economists view as particularly important, provided evidence that a three-year deep slump in manufacturing is drawing to a close.
