How Are Manufacturers Addressing the Workforce Shortage with Technology?
Aug. 12, 2025
Tim Gaus from Deloitte Consulting joins us again — this time to discuss how automation technologies, particularly those aided by AI are helping manufacturers address the industrial workforce shortage that could lead to nearly 2 million unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2030, while production and operations management roles are currently going unfilled at nearly 50%.
How manufacturers are reconciling the fact that reshoring initiatives are boosting production requirements at a time when fewer workers are available to industry.
Insights into what the pressures to ramp up domestic production look like today on the factory floor in terms of their impact on the automation hardware and software technologies being focused on most.
The application of AI or other automation technologies to solve specific industrial workforce challenges.
