Jim Vinoski

1 week ago | manufacturingtalks.substack.com | Jim Vinoski

Right on cue, all the big mainstream media players are out with the same headline: “Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back,” or some variation of that. Vox, CNN, The Hill, NPR, CNBC, and yes, even Forbes–every one of these outlets has its own version of the new mantra. Every single one gets too many of the basic facts wrong as well. Thanks for reading Manufacturing Talks with Jim Vinoski! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

2 weeks ago | manufacturingtalks.substack.com | Jim Vinoski

‘Round about the time I was exhorted by a college career adviser decades ago not to go into manufacturing because it offered no career future, it was also common “wisdom” that the natural progression as nations grew wealthy is that they outsource production and focus on services. There is almost no logical basis for that assertion. Now, manufacturing may naturally make us less of total GDP, as we do less busy work ourselves and rely increasingly on service providers for it.

3 weeks ago | manufacturingtalks.substack.com | Jim Vinoski

Are the top American bike brands in danger of being knocked off by the Chinese? A little birdie–in this case, a top executive at a big-name bicycle industry company–has been whispering in my ear lately, understandably off the record, about this potential additional trouble in the already turbulent bike business. Thanks for reading Manufacturing Talks with Jim Vinoski! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

4 weeks ago | manufacturingtalks.substack.com | Jim Vinoski

In the past few weeks, there has been a steady rise in the numbers of increasingly shrill calls for the imposition of more tariffs to “protect” specific industries. Simultaneously, I’ve seen more and more assertions about the price increases and “inflation” caused by tariffs. There was even one executive who openly called his adversaries in this debate “morons.”Man, I get it.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Jim Vinoski

Noel Joyce is an ex-military guy from Tullamore, Ireland, who now lives in Shanghai and teaches for the NYU branch there. He was paralyzed from the chest down in a mountain biking crash back in 2006. He found himself confined to a wheelchair yet nonetheless wanted to get back out on the trails. But he discovered that the existing products available for that purpose were less than optimal. An industrial design professor by trade, he took the bull by the horns.