Last month we told you about the Manufacturing Business Conference to be held at the Kellogg School of Management this coming May. Yours truly will be moderating a panel discussion titled Onshoring: Domestic Manufacturing as a Competitive Advantage. Ironically it is scheduled right before a panel discussion on the Challenges of Outsourcing Manufacturing to China, so I guess my job is to make the following discussion a mute point or at least a non sequitur.
The members of my panel have been set, and I'm happy to announce they include several people and companies we've lauded on this blog.
- Michelle Kumbier, Director, Harley-Davidson Motor Company (our story)
- Gregory Owens, CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing (our story)
- Anthony Sapienza, President, Joseph Abboud Manufacturing Corp (our story)
- Conrad Winkler, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
It will be a real honor to meet these people in person, and hopefully as a group tell some other people how manufacturing can be globally competitive from U.S.-based factories. The Conference itself is sponsored by several companies we've mentioned, such as Danaher, Harley-Davidson, Eaton, ITW, Emerson, and John Deere.