PUBLIC POLICY More capital investment, STEM talent development, interoperability standards work are encouraged


For Trump team, advice and dissent


Advanced Manufacturing Media Staff


and the Information Technology and In- novation Foundation (ITIF) came out with policy recommendations for the burgeoning Trump administration. NACFAM suggested encouraging policy-


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makers to consider bills that would provide federal education funding for state programs that enable schools to hire more career counselors to help educate students about jobs in the area of advanced manufacturing. NACFAM also promoted tax credits for


employers that provide workers with techni- cal skills that are required to use advanced manufacturing process technologies and incentivize industry-recognized certifi cation and apprenticeship training programs. Increased capital investment and STEM


talent could help drive productivity, Manu- facturers Alliance for Productivity and Inno- vation (MAPI) CEO Stephen Gold said. “When productivity growth increases, so


do living standards,” he added. “So there is a great deal of risk if we don’t enact policy to stoke the smart manufacturing revolution, and at the same time a great opportunity for gain if we can move forward on those policies.” The ITIF, a science and tech think tank,


urged the Trump team to articulate a na- tional smart manufacturing strategy, ensure


ithin a month of the presidential election in November, the National Council For Advanced Manufac- turing (NACFAM)


collaboration between the Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers and Manu- facturing USA member institutes, direct the National Institute of Standards and Technol- ogy (NIST) to continue developing in- teroperable standards and “negotiate—and enforce—trade agreements that preclude partner nations from imposing barriers to cross-border data fl ows.” As it did so, the think tank asserted that


Donald Trump “has made bolstering US manufacturing an important policy priority.” Trump made proposals while campaign-


ing that would directly impact the manu- facturing industry. Those proposals include lowering the


corporate tax rate to 15%, threatening to introduce forced localization policies on US fi rms, relying on tax and trade reform eff orts to boost job growth, and shutting down the Export-Import Bank.


There is a risk in slowed, or lack of new, policy to support smart manufacturing, MAPI CEO Stephen Gold said. The coun- tries that become leaders in smart manu- facturing will attract more investment and talent to their borders, said Gold, who spoke at the 4th Annual MAPI Executive Sum- mit last May.


March 2017


Photo courtesy of MAPI


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