Will tariffs destroy the industrial supply chain?

For decades, the design and manufacturing engineering disciplines have worked within business models that relied on global supply chains. Everything from children’s toys to jet airliners depend on outsourced manufacturing and design assets that are distributed among subsidiary corporations and a large network of Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors.

Four months into the second Trump Administration however, and the supply chains feeding American manufacturers are in crisis. Re-shoring has been an ongoing trend for years, but will tariffs accelerate the trend? Can American design and engineering firms backfill the supply chain with domestic sources? If so, how quickly?

Paul Heney, Vice President and Editorial Director for WTWH Media and Mary Gannon, Editor-in-Chief of Fluid Power World, are industry watchers at the leading edge of manufacturing transformation in America, and they joined engineering.com’s Jim Anderton in conversation.

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