Arizona manufacturing is having a moment. And like every state grabbing for a piece of America’s industrial comeback, leaders here are grappling with one challenge above all others: workforce. Last week manufacturing and education leaders convened in Phoenix at the Arizona Manufacturing Summit to assess the current state of manufacturing employment and forecast the path […]

America’s craft brewers would have been forgiven earlier this month for looking awry at a recurring headline in the Wall St. Journal: Why the Recession Still Isn’t Here might continue to describe macro conditions, but for much of the local suds industry, a deep downturn — a beer recession — has been a harsh reality […]

America’s precision machinists are searching for balance. On one hand, the business of contract manufacturing has become a lowest-cost, shortest lead-time proposition (read how, in space procurement). On the other hand, when provided room to operate, companies are leaning-in to engineering, to design-to-manufacture, to an operating ethos that values quality and acumen and technology and […]

Here’s how Primes and the companies that fly can make life easier for suppliers If “Prime” contractors like SpaceX and Lockheed Martin, along with companies like lunar explorer Ultimate Machines, are the public face of America’s new space economy, contract manufacturers and other suppliers to the industry are the glue. Their parts comprise the systems […]

Takeaways from the first Colorado Food & Beverage Co-Manufacturing Summit Aerospace gets the headlines, but more Coloradoans work at food companies than in any other manufacturing industry in the state – over 26,000 employees and another 10,000 or so in beverage businesses. As long ago as 2013, growth in this powerhouse sector convinced me that […]