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IndustryWeek August 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Welcome Back U.S. Manufacturing It's too early to tell whether high fuel prices and the falling dollar will be enough to bring offshored operations back home, but some recent moves suggest it's possible.
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IndustryWeek September 1, 2008	How to 'China-fy' Your Manufacturing Operations Transplant to China what you do well in manufacturing in the United States.
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HBS Working Knowledge April 11, 2005 Ken Cottrill	IBM's Supply Chain for Deploying People Selling its PC unit to Lenovo was only half of IBM's "on-demand business" story. Now the company is employing the supply chain principles it once used for products to deploy its employees.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2007 David Blanchard	Managing Expectations -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Comments Given the chance to weigh in on the state of the industry, their companies and their employees, manufacturing managers reveal what you always suspected: Things are tough out there, and they're likely to only get tougher.
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