Comment by brightball
3 hours ago
Yep, it’s amazing how much knowledge and capability a country can develop when it has most of the worlds manufacturing.
3 hours ago
Yep, it’s amazing how much knowledge and capability a country can develop when it has most of the worlds manufacturing.
They say history repeats itself, but there is a remarkable parallel on US industrial quality experts and statisticians being ignored by the US auto industry in the 1970s, then being taken seriously by the Japanese auto makers who then sling shotted themselves past US auto quality in the 80s to probably 2010ish?
In this round of history repeating, 2020s US car maker management seems to be actively anti-collaboration and anti-expert within it's own domain. You can see commentary by Sandy Munro on US companies ignoring production efficiency details - outsourcing too much of their own supply chain, and being resistant to efficiency and integration improvements as well as Chinese auto companies hiring US auto production experts who were being ignored by the US auto industry - to improve fit, finish and quality.