I got a rant today BUY AMERICAN

[Fishpart]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

It is a disposable society. Family heirlooms are a thing of the past. People today want what they buy to be the cheapest they can get and don't care where it is made. I prefer to save up and buy the best , longest lasting products I can get usually. If it happens to be foreign made than that is what I buy. How can you compete with the foreign wage, environmental conditions, and lack of safety that is allowed in those country's? Pretty much can't. The writing has been on the wall since the Honda and the Toyota.

Agree with one exception, if you study manufacturing, you will learn that Honda and Toyota don't build less expensive vehicles through low wages and skirting environmental regulations but by a system of relentless continuous improvement.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Fishpart

Agree with one exception, if you study manufacturing, you will learn that Honda and Toyota don't build less expensive vehicles through low wages and skirting environmental regulations but by a system of relentless continuous improvement.

The story always goes that in Detroit, problems we're ignored because the unions didn't want to stop the vehicles from moving out the door.

In Japan, ANY employee can stop the production line if they see a problem.

LEAN Manufacturing has really changed how a lot of product development companies operate.

-spence