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Why Cobot Welding is Breaking Through in a Big Way
/in General/by Bart TaylorDoug Rhoda and team launched Vectis Automation at FABTECH in 2019, after deciding a year earlier the timing was probably right. “I walked FABTECH in 2018, asking myself, ‘is this (cobot welding) going to make sense or not?’” Six years later, with over 700 units now installed throughout North America, the answer is evident. But […]
CEO Nubia Perez’s LinkedIn videos are an HR home-run. Will new customers follow?
/in General/by Bart TaylorNubia Perez joined the family business full-time in 2012 and became CEO of Gretna Machine in 2023, a decade to ‘season’ and learn the ins-and-outs of operations. Right? Well, sort of. “During that time I wasn’t in a business development role, more behind the scenes,” says Perez. “For example, getting us into aerospace, leading the […]
Here’s why OEMs are investing in US manufacturing, and why they’re not
/in General/by Bart TaylorLast month we reviewed Reshoring Initiative’s (RI) 2024 Annual Report that summarized announced plans by US companies to reshore manufacturing jobs. RI followed up the ‘24 Report with a 2025 survey of US manufacturers “to determine where U.S. manufacturers are with respect to reshoring and the key factors influencing those decisions.” Participation was high: over […]
Manufacturing is a new magnet for tech-talent. One LA-based ‘Factory-of-the-Future’ is banking on it
/in General/by Bart TaylorManufacturing’s workforce challenge is to get to the other side, to a promising future where graduates from the trade and higher education flash skills that match the workforce needs of a modern, high-tech industry. We’re not there yet, but the fruits of a decade of workforce advocacy, diminishing returns from university degrees, tech-industry malaise, a […]