Since the first industrial revolution, improving productivity has been a major goal for most manufacturing operations. Today, in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, that hasn’t changed.

A new preliminary report shows U.S. manufacturing rising this month at its fastest pace since November 2015, following a post-Great Recession low in May, according to the financial information ...

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The Index of Leading Indicators forecast a deep recession in the past year, which did not come close to materializing, for two major reasons. First, manufacturing, which used to have a significant ...

High-frequency weekly indicators suggest the US economy remains resilient, with most short leading and coincident metrics in positive territory. Long leading indicators improved after the Fed's ...

Manufacturers everywhere feel they’re behind on mastering their use of operations data. The answer to that problem isn't collecting more data, it's tracking those data points that actually solve ...

Manufacturing capacity utilisation declined further by 9.76 per cent in Q1 from 3.81 per cent recorded in the preceding quarter (i.e. Q4 2023). Manufacturing investment also dipped further by 5.16 per ...

The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key indicator of activity in the manufacturing sector, has held its ground in the latest data release. The PMI figure came in at 51.9, matching ...

Amidst a challenging operating environment characterised by unfavourable macroeconomic indicators, the manufacturing sector witnessed a significant underperformance during the Second Quarter of 2023 ...