Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing wasn’t the title of Wednesday’s Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce event on manufacturing.
But it could have been, given the panelists on stage at the Hyatt at the Bellevue.
Give up the image of “dark, dirty, dangerous, and underpaid,” with “rows of people doing menial tasks,” said panelist Evan Malone, founder of NextFab, the hardware technology incubator and product development services company in South Philadelphia.
Image: Evan Malone, president of NextFab, with a Pick and Place Machine, which assembles such things as circuit boards. ANDREW THAYER / Staff
