The Bay Area is in the midst of a modern manufacturing revival that could help shape the region's economy for years to come. It sounds crazy. This is the land of Facebook and Google (GOOG), the land of cloud computing and big ideas. This is a place where you'd be forgiven for thinking that the only things we make are companies and millionaires. How often have you heard that manufacturing is dead in the Bay Area; that Silicon Valley stopped being a production center when the semiconductor plants moved out? Turns out, that's not the case. "It's amazing how the real story can contradict conventional wisdom," says Timothy Krueger, co-author of an April Brookings Institution study that found Silicon Valley had the country's highest manufacturing wages and the second highest concentration of production jobs in the nation's big cities. "Clearly Silicon Valley is the envy of much of the American manufacturing industry. There is no doubt about that."
To read the full, original article click on this link: Cassidy: Silicon Valley, Bay Area poised for manufacturing revival - San Jose Mercury News
