Re:America Is Losing the Shoe Race with China
by philwelch on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:50PM
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Yeah, this is part of how Japanese companies like Toyota were able to compete with “lean” processes. Early on they were too small to adopt American manufacturing processes so they were forced to try something different.
American manufacturing exceeds at anything energy intensive or which can be automated. We suck at manual tooling, as Cooke points out.
That applies to, in general, anything big. Big production runs. Big in mass. We’re good at big.