{"id":4728,"date":"2012-01-30T12:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:06:34","slug":"revitalizing-u-s-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/revitalizing-u-s-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalizing U.S. manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainableindustries.com\/articles\/2012\/01\/revitalizing-us-manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Matley, Rocky Mountain Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stories about the death of U.S. manufacturing are a recurring theme since the \u201cJapanese invasion\u201d of electronics and autos in the early 1980s, and the sector hemorrhaged 5.5 million jobs over the past decade.\u00a0But U.S. manufacturing is far from dead, in fact providing a rare bright spot in today\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing employment has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/06\/business\/us-manufacturing-is-a-bright-spot-for-the-economy.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">grown each of the last two years<\/a>, driven by a rebounding auto sector, and now employs <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.bls.gov\/pub\/suppl\/empsit.ceseeb1.txt\" target=\"_blank\">11.7 million people<\/a>. A number of trends are coinciding to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcg.com\/documents\/file84471.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">make U.S. manufacturing increasingly competitive globally<\/a>. Wages and benefits are growing rapidly in China \u2014 as Obama noted in his speech \u2014 at the same time that U.S. manufacturing wages are falling. The risks of operating a supply chain that stretches halfway around the world are growing: rising transportation costs, the threat of import duties, less product flexibility, slower time to market, intellectual property theft, and product safety\/reputation risks are growing concerns when moving manufacturing offshore. All of these factors are translating into making U.S. manufacturing more appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Efficiency and whole-system design can help industry accelerate these growing advantages. Analysis from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reinventingfire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Reinventing Fire<\/a>, RMI\u2019s blueprint to running a 158 percent bigger 2050 U.S. economy powered by efficiency and renewables reveals that the industrial sector can achieve 84 percent greater production using 9 to 13 percent less energy, and save $0.5 trillion net.<\/p>\n<p>For example, with RMI\u2019s help, Texas Instruments (TI) built a new, million-square-foot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90gDc7EFMdo&amp;feature=player_embedded#!\" target=\"_blank\">semiconductor fabrication plant<\/a> in Richardson, Texas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ti.com\/corp\/docs\/manufacturing\/RFABfactsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">This facility<\/a>, opened in 2009, was the first LEED Gold rated semiconductor facility, and its innovative design <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semi.org\/en\/Issues\/Sustainability\/P042671\" target=\"_blank\">saved $4 million<\/a> in annual energy operating cost and 35 percent of its water use compared with TI\u2019s previous chip fab built just four miles away. Building this facility added up to less than 1 percent of the construction budget.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainableindustries.com\/articles\/2012\/01\/revitalizing-us-manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Industries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Matley, Rocky Mountain Institute Stories about the death of U.S. manufacturing are a recurring theme since the \u201cJapanese invasion\u201d of electronics and autos in the early 1980s, and the sector hemorrhaged 5.5 million jobs over the past decade.\u00a0But U.S. manufacturing is far from dead, in fact providing a rare bright spot in today\u2019s economy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/revitalizing-u-s-manufacturing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revitalizing U.S. manufacturing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}