Liberals
are saying that the science fiction being touted today will replace
manufacturing jobs, so why bother bringing them back to the US. This is another
big lie. They are
also saying that vehicles will drive themselves. If that were true we wouldn’t
have so many public transit train accidents. If research labs can produce
robots, self-driving vehicles and manufacturing without employees then where
are they and what do they cost?
My
consulting customers included companies that off-shored their manufacturing
like Scientific Atlanta. They sent their TV set-top manufacturing to Juarez
Mexico. Trump’s corporate tax cut could bring them back to the US.
Continuous
Improvement
The
techniques US companies used when they off-shored their manufacturing may or
may not have continued to evolve. Knowing that we solved our quality problems
using Continuous Improvement, Lean Process Control and Teams to improve
design and operation processes, I knew that the processes worked because I saw
the difference in the quality of the products. The same techniques we used in
Reliability Engineering to control product life were used to extend product
life. We see this with our automobiles lasting longer.
High
Speed, Highly Automated 24/7 manufacturing processes allowed us to build a
Huggies Diaper plant that supplied half the US while staffing it with 750
Technicians. That took the labor cost out of the product and emphasized
equipment maintenance. These companies really didn’t need to leave the US. They
could set up close to their consumer populations and raw material suppliers.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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