Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America (www.wsj.com)

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[-] chop@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Paywall. tldr?

Guessing… corporate incompetence and scaling problems and logistics and “muh supply chain” nonsense.

[-] yads@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

They bought into marketing hype from a machine supplier. Then didn't properly test the machines before bringing their process up to scale. The machines couldn't produce quality tools at the expected rate. They could have fixed the process by slowing it down, but that would have made the plant unprofitable. So they closed it.

[-] flying_monkies@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Issues with the automation systems they tries implementing.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

"couldn't"

[-] s6original@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's probably the tools at the top. They call the shots.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because they're not as good as the Milwaukee folks, who do?

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The problem was they wanted to make them without any folks.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that doesn't work.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

But they will keep trying.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Eventually the MBAs will rediscover Gall's Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.