Top 8 Manufacturing Trends For 2022
Trend #1. Manufacturers Will Continue to Deal with Labor Shortages The labour shortage is nothing new; the National Association of Manufacturers forecasted a 2.1 million manufacturing job gap by 2030 in 2019. Indeed, between February 2020 and December 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a loss of 219,000 manufacturing jobs. This shortage will be exacerbated by the loss of skills and knowledge as current workers retire. Manufacturers can get ahead of this trend by doing the following: 1.Improving public perception of manufacturing jobs 2.Recruiting from industries hardest hit by the pandemic 3.Reskilling current employees 4.Increasing efforts to retain workers investing in more automation By increasing system uptime and line output, our custom conveying solutions can assist manufacturers in dealing with labour shortages. Trend # 2. Data-Driven Maintenance as a Margin Enhancer Sensors, remote monitoring, connected devices, and the Internet of Things (IOT) have all ap...