Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

Manufacturing Automation: Bridging the Labor Gap & Net Zero

12 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker highlights a projected 25% shortage of manufacturing labor by 2030, based on data comparing current job openings to future demand. Emphasizing the urgency of this gap, the speaker argues that automation offers the most straightforward and effective means for manufacturers to address the impending shortfall, positioning it as a critical strategy for sustaining production capacity.

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I mean, the data out there, the data clearly states between the amount of jobs we have open now and the amount of jobs we're going to create between now and 2030, we're going to have a 25% shortage in labor if every able-bodied person took a job just in manufacturing. Yeah. That's incredible. So you have to fill that void. You have to fill that gap. So when manufacturers look at it, And they start to think about, how am I going to do that? Automation is, is probably the simplest avenue to get there.