NEW YORK—More than half of U.S. manufacturers saw their sales grow last year, and 75 percent expect to grow in 2012, according to results of new industry barometer.

CHARLESTON, SC— From January 2010 to December 2011, the Charleston region experienced the largest growth in manufacturing jobs of any U.S. metropolitan area at 14.4 percent.

WASHINGTON—Since early 2010, U.S. manufacturers have created 489,000 jobs and are struggling to fill nearly a quarter million more. Their output last year topped $1.84 trillion, 8 percent higher than the pre-recession peak.

WASHINGTON—Labor concessions and substantial government subsidies have been crucial to the revival of U.S. manufacturing, says one expert.

WASHINGTON—A new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows that since the beginning of 2010, manufacturing employment has increased by 5.2 percent in the Midwest, while it has gone up by only 2.2 percent in the South.

MUNICH, Germany—Many industries are not yet automated as extensively as possible, according to a new report by the International Federation of Robotics and the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association.

WASHINGTON—The next episode of the PBS series “America Revealed” unveils surprising facts about the state of U.S. manufacturing.