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Joining Together

Explore the concept of joint manufacturing and technology for an export-oriented North America, highlighting the benefits, goals, and future prospects. Learn how collaboration among US, Canadian, and Mexican universities can enhance competitiveness and sustainability.

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Joining Together

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  1. Joining Together North America

  2. What an Export-Oriented North America MeansApril 2012 Rick Van Schoik Director, NACTS

  3. AGENDA NACTS Joint Production Joint Manufacturing Joint Technology

  4. NACTS Consortium of US, Canadian, Mexican universities with mission of increasing cooperation with four foci: Increasing awareness of NA Promoting NA competitiveness Improving NA security commons Addressing NA sustainability

  5. Recent NACTS Reports

  6. JOBS!

  7. THEN IS NOW “The point of history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger. The world will either move towards unity and widely shared prosperity or it will move apart into necessarily competing economic blocs. We have a chance to use our influence in favor of a more united and cooperative world. Whether we do so will determine, as far as it is in our power, the kind of lives our grandchildren can live.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt February 1945

  8. NOW IS FUTURE Our shared border must be an engine, not a brake, for our economies.

  9. PREMISE North American competitiveness in world marketplace has been risked but is poised to recover based upon: More productive borders Application of technology Joint inspiration-to-perspiration production

  10. NEI U.S. is on track to meet goals of the National Export Initiative (accounting for half of the growth during stagnation) Because: We build together Strong growth in Mexico Sustained imports by others

  11. GREAT RECOVERY Growth in developing nations benefitted exporters of infrastructure construction raw materials (Canada) But second phase of global resurgence will demand the software-driven products that U.S. and Mexico build “Early days of export boom…including a manufacturing revival” Brooks NYT

  12. JOINT A joint is the location at which two or more bones (nations) make contact. They are constructed to allow movement and provide mechanical support, and are classified structurally and functionally.

  13. WHAT WE JOIN Cultures, Natures, Values Economies, Commerce, Jobs Security and Safety Energy, Ecology, Environment Commons, Futures

  14. JOINT RESPONSIBILITY Guns, Ammo, Cash, and Precursor Chemicals are flowing south Is it any wonder drugs flow north to an appetite there

  15. NOT!

  16. JOINT MANUFACTURING To cite old statistics of the number of times an automobile component crosses the border is to miss the point that mining/minerals, energy, services, investment, education/training, design & assemble co-production, and even agriculture are now fully integrated North American endeavors To

  17. INTERNATIONAL MARKET

  18. EXAMPLES Cow fetuses are sent south, young calves are sent north, and fattened beef is sent south One fifth of major high-tech and large item manufacturing industries is “back-” or “on-shoring” including autos, aerospace due to wage convergence, education, supply chain durability, and cost including energy and GHGs

  19. JOINT MANUFACTURING Boomerang effect: Proximity! Labor costs no longer matter Productivity driven by software “Manufacturing advances already in pipeline…cost of North America-made solar panel will fall by more than half to 50 cents per watt

  20. JOINT PRODUCTION PEMEX crude Reversing flow of natural gas Refined products Gulf of Mexico “donut hole” Renewable energy Carbon, greenhouse gases

  21. JOINT BORDER OPS Mirrored enforcement ‘ Shared intelligence Joint booths Single E-window Clusters and secure corridors

  22. C4ISR Traditional border security was three legged mantra Ports were imbalanced with borders Non-intrusive technology is poised to enable 21st Century corridors, gate- ways, optimodal/interchange facilities Other communications

  23. JOINT RISK ASSESSMENT Targets Threat Vulnerability Probability Impacts Consequences

  24. LAST THOUGHTS

  25. CONTACT INFO WWW.NACTS.ASU.edu NACTS@ASU.edu 480-965-1846

  26. NACTS Overviewof History, Structure & Research Amira De la Garza NACTS; Associate Director

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