Op-Ed: The promising state of American manufacturing – and what we need for more progress

Photo caption: A CNC operator produces components at the Nanotronics lab as Mayor Bill De Blasio welcomes Nanotronics high-tech manufacturing hub to Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 28, 2021 in New York City. Photo credit: Roy Rochlin | Getty Images. Article by Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers. CNBC – May 14, 2021.

Things are going well for manufacturers, but Washington needs to make sure that progress isn’t obstructed, National Association of Manufacturers CEO Jay Timmons writes.

America’s vaccination success story is very much a manufacturing success story.

Manufacturing in the U.S. proved — as it has throughout so many crises in years past — that it was made for this moment, and that it is ready to build the next, post-pandemic world to come. Today we can report that the state of the manufacturing industry is growing stronger with each vaccination.

Our industry was able to survive and adapt to the pandemic because it is truly modern. Manufacturers are embracing a new industrial revolution powered by digital innovation. […]

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