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How automation leads to new career opportunities in manufacturing

The manufacturing sector in the United States and most other western nations has seen an outward migration, with many jobs going to overseas, developing countries where the cost of labor is significantly cheaper. Indeed, U.S. manufacturing, which once accounted for 28 percent of all jobs in the early 1960s, has declined to less than 9 percent in 2011, according to a Deloitte University Press study. This decline in U.S. manufacturing was best highlighted in 2012, when President Barack Obama asked Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, if it was possible that the company might shift its iPhone manufacturing operations back…