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Parts maker. It's something people forget about. Britain for a time was the premier plane/jet developer and manufacturing center after WW2. Like the Comet. And
by dba7dba 11y ago
Parts maker. It's something people forget about. Britain for a time was the premier plane/jet developer and manufacturing center after WW2. Like the Comet. And that helped a lot of parts makers (like Rolls-Royce jet engine) for planes grow in UK. Even when UK lost the crown of biggest jet maker to Boeing, those parts makers in Britain are still around and thriving.
So it's more disturbing to me that you can't find such competitive/numerous parts makers in US.
- socceroos 11y agoAmericans are more aggressive in strategy - which includes outsourcing. It also makes them more prone to being aggressively stupid and aggressively short-sighted. But hey, profits.
- _delirium 11y agoThe U.S. has a pretty big parts industry, but it varies a lot by sector. It's quite strong in heavy machinery, for example, where domestic suppliers have a majority marketshare in both the market for the machinery itself, and the parts used for building and maintaining said machinery (and the tooling for the machines that build those machines... etc.). There are various ways to slice it, but if you take the broad sector of "machinery and equipment" as defined by the U.S. Department of Commerce, domestic suppliers have about a 60% share of the U.S. market overall: http://selectusa.commerce.gov/industry-snapshots/machinery-and-equipment-industry-united-states.html http://selectusa.commerce.gov/industry-snapshots/machinery-a...