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Re:What happened to the US machine tool industry? by aj7 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:10PM (#39045245)
People who understand this industry can answer in a single word.

Fanuc.

And when Fanuc realized that only GE was capable of competing with it in the computer controls needed to run machine tools (and wasn’t doing shit, another Welchism), it cleverly bought off GE by giving it the U.S. franchise for Fanuc, at least until the GE stink began to be undesirable.

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Re:What happened to the US machine tool industry? by grow2grow on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:14PM (#39045310)
Yes, no surprise that a standard won the battle, over several competing choices. That seems to happen a lot.
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Re:What happened to the US machine tool industry? by droopyEyelids on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:28PM (#39045583)
Sort of a tautology, right? The winner of the competition becomes the standard.
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