I am in the process of designing and planning a new factory. It will likely be located in TX or AZ, because CA is just bat-shit-crazy.
Sounds great, until I explain that our objective is to have this be as automated as possible. Production capacity will be up to 100K units per month (sorry, I can't talk about what we will manufacture). The production line --and the products-- will be designed for nearly 100% automation. Assemblies and components that cannot meet the automation requirements will be outsourced, manufactured abroad and brought-in in automation-ready form. As a result, if everything works out, this will be a lights-out manufacturing line employing just enough engineers and technicians to make it go.
This isn't about greed at all. It simply is impossible to support certain types of jobs in the US when the wage structure is distorted as it is through government interference. Your choices are binary: Automate or outsource. In reality, you, more often than not, have to do both.
Why? Because that's the only way to run manufacturing in the US today. I don't include high-margin aerospace-anything in my definition of manufacturing. When we do aerospace work the financial rules of the game are very different. What's interesting is that neither approach is going to create jobs for dozens of millions of people.
I am in the process of designing and planning a new factory. It will likely be located in TX or AZ, because CA is just bat-shit-crazy.
Sounds great, until I explain that our objective is to have this be as automated as possible. Production capacity will be up to 100K units per month (sorry, I can't talk about what we will manufacture). The production line --and the products-- will be designed for nearly 100% automation. Assemblies and components that cannot meet the automation requirements will be outsourced, manufactured abroad and brought-in in automation-ready form. As a result, if everything works out, this will be a lights-out manufacturing line employing just enough engineers and technicians to make it go.
This isn't about greed at all. It simply is impossible to support certain types of jobs in the US when the wage structure is distorted as it is through government interference. Your choices are binary: Automate or outsource. In reality, you, more often than not, have to do both.
Why? Because that's the only way to run manufacturing in the US today. I don't include high-margin aerospace-anything in my definition of manufacturing. When we do aerospace work the financial rules of the game are very different. What's interesting is that neither approach is going to create jobs for dozens of millions of people.