After two decades of offshore productions in low-cost countries, manufacturers are now struggling with the rapidly growing salaries and countereffects of cheap production. The question that industries are asking today is: Do we continue offshoring, or should we consider reshoring?

The right answer, according to Paavo Kakela, the CEO of EID Robotics, who provides modular microfactory systems, is that manufacturers should transform their operations to rightshoring.

During the 1990s, U.S. manufacturers were sold by the lower cost of Asian labor. This is how the global offshoring boom started in Asia. By the 2000 millennium, offshoring began to peak; it maintained this growth trend until 2010—the year when U.S. domestic-manufacturing employment rates reached all-time lows.

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