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The Future of Manufacturing

Manufacturing in America has changed dramatically over the past decades, a period marked by deepening globalization, the emergence of China and Southeast Asia as major manufacturing bases, technological advances, and the "dot.com" boom and bust. SRI conducted a series of analyses for the Futures Group of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in order to provide a better understanding of these major shifts and to help MEP/NIST align its assistance to America's small manufacturers:

• International Comparisons of the Percentage of a Nation's Total Workforce Employed in Manufacturing and Levels of Per Capita Income

• Comparison of Wage & Other Compensation Between Manufacturing Industries and Other Sectors

• Offshoring & Manufacturing Productivity

• Trends and Impacts of Globalization of Manufacturing Input Factors on Future U.S. Manufacturing Capability

• Advanced Technology & the Future of U.S. Manufacturing

• Behavior and Results of Top U.S. Manufacturing Firms

• Behavior and Results of Top Foreign Manufacturing Firms

• Assessing the Value of Information and its Impact on Productivity in Small and Midsize Manufacturers