October 6th is National Manufacturing Day, a day set aside to celebrate modern manufacturing and inspire the next generation of workers to get excited about new opportunities and trends in manufacturing. Manufacturing is changing, and it’s important for us to help ‘set the record straight’ when it comes to some of the misperceptions people have about manufacturing jobs. What better way to shed some light on this innovative industry than with some of the coming trends we here

Innovate or die. An aging mantra (attributed to Bill Gates back in the 1990s we think?), but also still relevant today. The one thing that’s missing? What that looks like in practice. Often, people think only of product designers holed up somewhere working and then re-working designs, wastebaskets full of ideas that proved unsuccessful. What’s missing in that picture is the partnerships, between product designers and the manufacturers who produce these new products in order t