GE selects appliance park 4-22-13
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Wed.0411012D13-10:54 am by Joel Hans. Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing amount of buzz around the concept of “re-shoring, “in which an American company decides it’s more financially viable to bring manufacturing operations back to the U.S. from a foreign land. Generally speaking, company leaders are finding that the “total cost” of producing overseas -including rising labor costs, duties, freight fees and loss of intellectual properly -actually makes outsourcing the worse financial picture. And ...
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The Insourcing Boom by Charles Fishman
The Atlantic 12/2012
After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States.
…. In the midst of this revival, [GE CEO Jeff] Immelt made a startling assertion. Writing in “Harvard Business Review” in March, he declared that outsourcing is “quickly becoming mostly outdated as a business model for ...
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