For the past three years, there has been mounting anecdotal evidence that North America is once again becoming a preferred location for Automation manufacturing. The evidence has been spotty, but nonetheless compelling -- Apple’s building in Texas, Motorola’s making smartphones in Fort Worth, Lenovo opening a plant in North Carolina, Texas Instruments in Maine, GE in Kentucky. It goes on and on.

The growing list of North American plant openings has spurred the Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC) to conduct a study of onshoring -- the opposite of offshoring. Now in its second year, the study, "On-Shoring in the Electronics Industry: Trends and Outlook for North America," shows a pattern in the return or manufacturing to North America. "I think it is a trend. A lot of manufacturers are reviewing their strategy to see if the decisions they made in where they manufacture their products make sense," Sharon Starr, director of market research at IPC, told Design News.

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