Ben Armstrong has his finger on the pulse of U.S. manufacturing. That’s what happens when your research has you talking with dozens of manufacturers across America to understand their struggles and successes and how we might address the industry’s long-simmering deficits in skilled labor, technology, and training.

His latest work, with Suzanne Berger and Bill Bonvillian at the MIT Initiative for Knowledge and Innovation in Manufacturing, is presented in a report titled “Advanced Technology, Advanced Training: A new policy agenda for U.S. Manufacturing,” which was published in May.

Read more here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ethankarp/2021/09/28/have-we-been-approaching-the-skills-gap-in-manufacturing-all-wrong-qa-with-mit-researcher-ben-armstrong/?sh=12bafdc35ab0