Manufacturing is crucial for the robust growth of the economy, for exports and for generating substantial relevant … employment. Manufacturing is a force multiplier; it means investment in manufacturing yields four times the effect on Gross … Domestic Product (GDP) growth. The core manufacturing sector comprises engineering and construction, industrial manufacturing …

This paper presents the concept of including the energy cost as a part of the total cost of manufacturing using …

This article describes how U.S. manufacturing was stricken when companies embraced outsourcing beginning in the 1990s … manufacturing textiles and apparel in the United States is the narrowing gap between the U.S. and Asian labor costs. The sector … unlikely that textile manufacturing will create the large number of jobs that it did in the past. Furthermore, it is only …

The direction of current literature in addressing sustainability issues in the manufacturing sector highlights some … manufacturing organization, the role of the manufacturing function in creating competitiveness has been outdone by the current … proposes a unifying framework in formulating a manufacturing strategy which espouses sustainability with due consideration of …