{"id":4336,"date":"2019-12-12T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2024-02-06T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:50:34","slug":"week-50-in-manufacturing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrpeasy.com\/blog\/week-50-in-manufacturing-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 50 in Manufacturing News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. Added 266,000 Jobs in November;  How the U.S.-China&nbsp;Trade&nbsp;War&nbsp;Got to This Point; UK Manufacturing Production; How can manufacturers successfully respond to the data-first era?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-974fc45\">U.S. Added 266,000 Jobs in November<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Labor Department\u2019s report was much stronger than the one last month, helped by the end of a General Motors strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November\u2019s reassuring employment report, released Friday by the Labor Department, featured payroll increases of 266,000.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 3.5 percent, November was the 21st consecutive month with an unemployment rate of 4 percent or lower. Revisions to earlier estimates brought the average monthly payroll gain for the past three months to 205,000 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"The New York Times (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/06\/business\/economy\/november-jobs-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the U.S.-China&nbsp;Trade&nbsp;War&nbsp;Got to This Point <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What started in 2018 with U.S. levies on imported washing machines and solar panels to protect domestic producers has escalated into a cycle of tariffs, talks and truces that have rocked financial markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overview of trade war: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"The Washington Post (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/energy\/how-the-us-chinatradewargot-to-this-point\/2019\/12\/12\/28f3b2fc-1cbd-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UK Manufacturing Production arrives at 0.2% MoM in Oct vs. 0.0% expected<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the&nbsp;<strong>UK&nbsp;<\/strong>industrial and manufacturing production data on Tuesday, with the overall industrial activity witnessing deterioration in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manufacturing output arrived at +0.2% MoM in October versus 0.0% expectations and -0.4% booked in September, while total industrial output came in at +0.1% vs. +0.2% expected and -0.3% last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"FX Street (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/news\/uk-manufacturing-production-arrives-at-02-mom-in-oct-vs-00-expected-201912100938\" target=\"_blank\">FX Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can manufacturers successfully respond to the data-first era?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Data driving change<\/strong> &#8211; Manufacturing is quickly grasping the possibilities brought by data, and there is a huge opportunity to optimise operations through the efficient gathering and processing of data from machines within a factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Collaboration through digitisation<\/strong> &#8211; from the IoT, to 3D printing, to AL and machine learning \u2013 will bring huge financial gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taking advantage of the hybrid approach<\/strong> &#8211; To achieve this, manufacturers must move away from legacy systems to a hybrid\/multicloud deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themanufacturer.com\/articles\/can-manufacturers-successfully-respond-data-first-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"The Manufacturer (opens in a new tab)\">The Manufacturer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Added 266,000 Jobs in November; How the U.S.-China&nbsp;Trade&nbsp;War&nbsp;Got to This Point; UK Manufacturing Production; How can manufacturers successfully respond to the data-first era?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[57,59],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-manufacturing-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Week 50 in Manufacturing News - Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manufacturing news week 50. 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