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Manufacturing output in the United States generally increases over time, but output is generated through gains in productivity from automation (e.g. robots). Th
by sunir 14y ago
Manufacturing output in the United States generally increases over time, but output is generated through gains in productivity from automation (e.g. robots). Therefore, the absolute number of jobs in the manufacturing sector has been steadily declining as well and will continue to do so both here and in China.
http://mercatus.org/publication/us-manufacturing-output-vs-jobs-1975 http://mercatus.org/publication/us-manufacturing-output-vs-j...
In fact, Foxconn itself is rapidly increasing its robot workforce from 10,000 robots to a goal of 1 million robots by 2014.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/30/c_131018764.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/30/c_131...
- hkmurakami 14y agoManufacturing capacity is a matter of national security imo and it's important for the country to maintain and increase it. However I'm wondering about the very basic manufacturing / raw material production capacity within the United States. Yes, there is Alcoa, the largest Aluminum producer in the world, but does the country actually have the ability to produce basic building blocks like nuts, bolts, sheet metal, steel beams, wiring, etc from the ground up if such a need came up in the future? (though one would hope that such a need would never arise in the future)