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>> America just doesn't have the deep well of manufacturing knowledge that a new company like Tesla can draw on. Is this serious? America has been offshoring d
by abduhl 6y ago
>> America just doesn't have the deep well of manufacturing knowledge that a new company like Tesla can draw on.
Is this serious? America has been offshoring domestic auto manufacturing for a couple decades now. The people who worked in those factories didn’t just die, they’re mostly still available for hire. There is no metric in manufacturing knowledge where America lags that far behind other first world countries, let alone the rest of the world.
- bumby 6y agoThe age is a bigger issue than you might think. When I worked in automotive manufacturing, I bet the average age was approaching 50. Combine that with work that is more manual in nature and there might be more concern that there is a skill/worker shortage. The DoD has identified this as a risk [1] and notes that a majority of manufacturing workers are over 45 years old [2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/america-military-industrial-base.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/america-military-... [2] https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/05/22/americas-industrial-base-is-at-risk-and-the-military-may-feel-the-consequences/ https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2018/05/22/americas-ind...
- akgerber 6y agoThe Tesla factory is a former GM/Toyota factory notable for introducing Japanese quality practices to the US, and it ran until 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI There's an episode of This America Life about it: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015