140: Local Manufacturing for a New Hardware Invention Idea

With Nigel Southway, Author of Take Back Manufacturing

Nigel Southway is the author of two books, the most recent is called Take Back Manufacturing, and his original was called Lean Manufacturing. He has spent 55 years in the manufacturing space. He was the chair of a chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, which I was also a part of starting over 10 years ago. Today Nigel is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can decide between onshore and offshore manufacturing, what the pros and cons are for each choice, explain short-run manufacturing for new products, and how we can bring back manufacturing to local communities.

Today you will hear us talk about:

• Look at local vs offshore carefully
• Run the numbers of manufacturing
• Benefits of on-shore manufacturing
• Technology that is enabling local manufacturing for new physical products
• Short run manufacturing
• Take back manufacturing: Political, Educational, and Technology
• The difference, on average, is only about 10%

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Nigel Southway / Take Back Manufacturing Links:

• Website: https://nigelsouthwayauthor.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelsouthway/

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Thanks for tuning in! See you next time.