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The entire idea of specialized regions is incredibly frustrating. When will companies invest in remote work?
by drb91 8y ago
The entire idea of specialized regions is incredibly frustrating. When will companies invest in remote work?
- CydeWeys 8y agoKind of hard to do manufacturing remotely ...
- drb91 8y agoThis is true. Are all jobs manufacturing?
- CydeWeys 8y agoI'd wager that most jobs at an auto manufacturer can't be done remotely. Besides all the assembly line workers, a lot of the engineering and testing is physical too.
- m52go 8y agoAll jobs that require making stuff are in manufacturing. As tempting as it is to think that software is taking over the world, humans will always live in a 4D world, and we'll always need stuff to help us live in it. Manufacturing will change dramatically, but it's not going anywhere or becoming 'obsolete'.
- falcor84 8y agoI can quite easily conceive of manufacturing things becoming almost entirely remote, with only a skeleton crew on-site. There are quite a few start-ups I'm familiar with manufacturing various widgets in China without ever stepping foot there, just sending CAD files.
- redisman 8y agoCars aren't built from iron ore in Detroit either. They're basically assembling parts put together in various countries around the world.
- drb91 8y agoSo... no, not all jobs are manufacturing. ️Was soapboxing necessary?
- humanrebar 8y agoYou can write controllers for manufacturing machines in lots of places.
- crdoconnor 8y agoIt's a little harder troubleshooting them from a beach in Florida though.
- humanrebar 8y agoYes. You still need a test bench and to either travel a bit or have some local engineers. But the point is all the "manufacturing jobs" aren't people welding, etc.
- ghaff 8y agoPeople don't do a whole lot of welding in many areas of manufacturing including automotive. It's all robots.
- brett40324 8y agoThere is a lot of automated welding, sure. But, in every small to midsize fabrication shop in America, men and woman are welding, right now.
- jillesvangurp 8y agoManufacturing locally may become a thing though. Kind of nonsensical to manufacture stuff on the other side of the planet and then ship it across when robots can replace the cheap labor that made that economical to begin with. That's an opportunity for places like Detroit to make some kind of comeback.
- Nasrudith 8y agoIt is all a matter of scaling vs transportation, quality, and other costs really for if it makes sense to centralize or decentralize. If a specialized factory making only very specific parts enmasse and shipping them is far more efficient than a more general purpose localized manufacturing set up.
- bluedino 8y agoGM moved the "headquarters" of Cadillac to New York for some stupid reason, but they recently moved it back.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoWell as soon as you install a 60-ton press in your garage, you can probably consider it...