reversal of outsourcing???

[byhammerandhand]

Very interesting article
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/2/?single_page=true

[kodydog]

Exciting article Hammer.  Here's another

http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/articles/archives/WWP-wood-products-magazine/Wood-Industry-Sees-Return-of-Made-in-America-157795515.html

Manufactures are finding the huge gap between design and production are inefficient.

[byhammerandhand]

Here's the article that lead me to The Atlantic article.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/08/166801322/not-just-patriotic-u-s-manufacturing-may-be-smart

All I can say is, "It's about time we woke up and smelled the coffee."

There was a large furniture manufacturer that closed its last US plant a few years ago.   I saw a bunch of their outsourced stuff and it was terrible.   I remember one table that was missing finish on a whole apron.  My comment to myself was they did not really have a handle on QA.    I heard they reopened a US plant last summer.