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A question that is somewhat on topic: does anyone have any articles or books on the vertical integration of some car manufacturers in the past where they had r
by drenvuk 8y ago
A question that is somewhat on topic: does anyone have any articles or books on the vertical integration of some car manufacturers in the past where they had raw iron ore come in one side and cars roll out the other? I would be interested in other industries as well.
- captain_perl 8y agoRobinson Helicopter in SoCal basically does that today for safety QA reasons. They start with billets though and CNC every little part in a mile-long factory.
- acover 8y agoThere was a Ken Burns documentary on Henry Ford who made an entire town where iron ore went in and cars went out. He found it dystopian and dirty and it eventually closed.
- WalterBright 8y agoI doubt that would work very well, considering the law of comparative advantage.
- drenvuk 8y agoI believe that's when there aren't too many middlemen in the way or too many people driving up the cost of your materials when you can source them better at a different stage in the processing route. Logistics companies are middlemen. Vendors are middlemen. Space X for example has a high degree of vertical integration, maybe not to the point of smelting their own raw materials but much higher than ULA. In the past it may have made sense given the environment.