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Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America

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Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America - Lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/677480 [https://lemmy.zip/post/677480] > Archived version: https://archive.ph/RQev4 [https://archive.ph/RQev4] > Archived version: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5 [https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5]

Jul 23, 2023 at 12:25amWeb
Show threadfuboJul 23, 2023
Because they’re not as good as the Milwaukee folks, who do?
Show threadPons_AeliusJul 23, 2023
The problem was they wanted to make them without any folks.
Show threadfuboJul 23, 2023
Yeah, that doesn’t work.
Show threadPons_AeliusJul 23, 2023
But they will keep trying.
Show threadfuboJul 23, 2023

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.

Show threadbuckykatJul 23, 2023
If they could learn they wouldn’t be MBAs
Show threadbuckykatJul 23, 2023
“couldn’t”
Show threadchopJul 23, 2023

Paywall. tldr?

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

Show threadflying_monkiesJul 23, 2023
Issues with the automation systems they tries implementing.
Show threadSheeEttinJul 23, 2023
Yeah. A machine doesn’t have the flexibility and resiliency of a human. When a machine has a problem, it turns out defective products or nothing at all. A human can quickly identify and resolve a problem.
Show threadvanontomJul 23, 2023

Isn’t this how Tesla almost died? Basically they were determined to implement maximum tech and automation, but it actually caused serious problems and bottlenecks with mass production. It was solved by ditching some systems and adding more humans.

I’m pretty sure this info came from M***, though. Taking credit for the epiphany, as the savior with the genius idea before the company was bankrupted.

Show threadStarkillerX42Jul 23, 2023
The archive link gets around the paywall. The tldr as I understood it is that they gave up bringing it back to America after only a few years of trying through COVID. They never planned past the next quarter.
Show threadScottJul 23, 2023
No planning past the next shareholder meeting?? I’m shocked. /s
Show threadyadsJul 23, 2023
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.
Show threads6originalJul 23, 2023
It’s probably the tools at the top. They call the shots.