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Manufacturing and innovation are tightly linked for sure. GE found this out by accident and they've started bringing jobs back to the US. A lot of that had to
by msandford 11y ago
Manufacturing and innovation are tightly linked for sure. GE found this out by accident and they've started bringing jobs back to the US. A lot of that had to do with the rise in wages in China and the rise in fuel prices, I'm sure. But they also found they saved cost by having a multidisciplinary team redesign an appliance in just a few weeks.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-inso...
I'm glad to see that there's one more example of actually knowing how stuff works makes everything better.
- pjungwir 11y agoThis is one of the points made repeatedly in the book _Skunk Works_ by Ben Rich: the engineers works side-by-side with the folks building the parts, and have some manufacturing knowledge themselves. The Skunk Works fusion project that was here the other day made passing mention of that approach too.
- msandford 11y agoThat was a great book! I read it when I was in high school. Seems like I should probably read it again.