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How America
builds things.
Industrial capacity is a system of nine inputs. Capital, demand, materials, infrastructure, workforce, permitting, equipment, supply-chain depth and energy have to work together.
Learn where the constraints lie and what rebuilding requires.
Start hereThe industrial system
Capacity is set by its
binding constraint.
Nine inputs feed productive capacity, and the achievable level is limited by one or more binding constraints rather than by the average. Capital cannot compensate for missing power, equipment or skilled labor.
Relieving one constraint commonly exposes the next. The Institute calls this the Industrial Capacity Framework, and it organises every entry in this library.
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Reindustrialization,
from first principles.
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What Is Reindustrialization?
The definition, how it differs from reshoring, and what rebuilding productive capacity means.
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Disagreement is shown
Where credible measurements differ, we show the disagreement.
Analysis is marked
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Subjects
01 Reindustrialization What it is, why American productive capacity contracted, and what rebuilding requires. Thirteen entries in four chapters. 02 Energy & Power The system industry runs on, and why power availability is increasingly the binding constraint for large industrial projects in much of the country. Twelve entries.Look something up
Terms of the Trade Definitions for the language of American industrial capacity.