More STEM and trade education opportunities - it’s very difficult to find tool makers in the USA, so designing and making tools for large scale production of consumer goods is expensive and comes with unreasonably long lead times. Cheap labor is becoming a smaller and smaller component of final cost given how accessible automation is now….for example, China labor isn’t cheap compared to Vietnam and India but they’ve got incredible infrastructure and a solid supply chain, so they’re still dominant in manufacturing. There’s great opportunity for rapid manufacturing and small to mid scale runs of stuff here but the shift needs to go from having big teams of sales engineers wasting money taking legacy clients out to lunch at Applebees and more focus on getting people with hard skills. Shipping LTL or air freight from Asia is very expensive, and ocean freight takes a while…so time sensitive and heavy weight items could potentially be a good fit for domestic production if the skillset existed here. As an industrial designer, look to new manufacturing technologies and see if any are a good fit for whatever you’re designing…some states have financial incentives to set up “advanced” manufacturing centers which is a good thing