This month marks my 200th Tooling by Design column. Much has changed since my first column in 2006. The most profound change: the current state of our workforce. Across America, industries face supply-chain delays, worker shortages and the need to find places to build new facilities-all due to decades of off-shoring and de-emphasizing U.S. manufacturing education and training. According to Manufacturing Tomorrow, the metal fabrication industry expects a 400,000-worker shortage by 2024.
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