U.S. Manufacturing is on the rise. Between new technologies and the ‘re-shoring’ of jobs, the U.S. is the only industrial nation to maintain positive manufacturing growth over the past three years. This positive growth has fueled capital expenditures on traditional tangible assets such as plant, property and equipment (PP&E). As Ocean Tomo Chief Executive Officer James Malackowski stated in their 2015 Intangible Asset Market Value Study, “Fueled by a three-fold wage increas