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Apr 21st 2012 | from the print editionSpecial report: Manufacturing and innovationIn this special reportA third industrial revolutionBack to making stuffThe boomerang effectForging aheadSolid printLayer by layerAll together nowMaking the futureSources & acknowledgementsReprintsA third industrial revolutionAs manufacturing goes digital, it will change out of allrecognition, says Paul Markillie. And some of the businessof making things will return to rich countriesOUTSIDETHESPRAWLING Frankfurt Messe, home of innumerable German trade fairs, a third industrial revolution | The of 54/19/12 2:13 PMstands the Hammering Man , a 21-metre kinetic statue that steadilyraises and lowers its arm to bash a piece of metal with a Borofsky, the artist who built it, says it is a celebration of theworker using his mind and hands to create the world we live in.
The rise of outsourcing and offshoring and the growth of sophisticated supply chains has enabled companies the world over to use China, India and other lower-wage countries as workshops. Prompted by the global financial crisis, some Western policymakers now reckon it is about time their countries returned to making stuff in order to create jobs and
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