Why America's Largest Tool Company Couldn't Make a Wrench in America

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[–]rundown9 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

“Made in the USA with Global Materials.”

Translation: Made with cheap imported sub par steel, which diminished the rest of the tool.

Cheap imported steel and sub par metallurgy is fast becoming one of the greatest failure points in tool and US manufacturing, a small example being valve and engine component failures in the new Broncos and Corvettes barely off the dealer lots.

[–]Orochiwe don't need no water let the mother[honk] burn 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Coca-Cola is personally my iconic go-to for a product that an American company can't make in their own country anymore. The stuff coming from Mexico comes in tinted glass bottles and is made with real sugar, and fetches a higher price than the plastic bottles filled with HFCS.

[–]RandomCollection[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

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A former operations leader said adjustments to the Belarus-made rolling machine sometimes required new tooling to be sent from overseas, which could take weeks. He and other former employees said wrenches and ratchets became misshapen in the press. One fix would have required running the machine at half capacity, he said, but that would have thrown off the factory’s cost effectiveness.

Now here's a great example of why the US is in trouble.

Basic competence and experience in manufacturing is gone, along with any possibility of cost competitiveness. By overseas, I'm sure that they mean nations like China.

Rebuilding a manufacturing base in the US would be a multi-decade project that I doubt our short term thinking politicians would do.

[–]Orochiwe don't need no water let the mother[honk] burn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

“Sometimes the ease of installing automation is a little bit overestimated,” he said. “Where that comes from is, people don’t really understand how the product is made in the first place.”

Reveals one of the bad jokes about the threat to automate fast food service workers away. A kiosk can automate away the ordering process, but the fleshy employee must work the register, cook the food, clean the machines, clean the bathroom, wipe down the tables, shoo away the homeless guy, get some boxes out of storage, and listen to Karen's complaints. To think they call it "unskilled" work undeserving of better pay!

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Exactly. The mental labor is going to get replaced first. To replace physical work billions of robots must be manufactured. That's not happening any time soon

[–]yaiyen 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you are so right, they are already starting to fire people in movie industry because of AI this is one reason i believe most writers will lose their job in the future that is why the strike will fail. Last writers srike they lost to reality tv , now it will be to AI in couple years. Most show is crap anyway so why not make AI do it

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You philistine. Writing celebrity listicles is way too complex a task to ever be automated. We'll always need highly-trained professionals with journalism degrees for that.