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BrikoX Jul 23, 2023

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

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]

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chop Jul 23, 2023

Paywall. tldr?

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

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yads

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.