In regards to machine tool EXPORTS the US is BEHIND tiny Switzerland
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In regards to machine tool EXPORTS the US is BEHIND tiny Switzerland
...and I want to add we are behind switzerlands exports by almost half.
Boy do they make some fine mechanical equipment. I spent 7 months on a major installation of equipment made there and the only bright spot for the USA was they cannot program software to save their lives.
Each piece of equipment had software that worked like nobody at the factory spoke to each other. Even though this equipment was intended to be installed as one long production line, the sharing of data from one piece to the next was almost nonexistent.
Their own US based people were not allowed to make changes but had to wait while updates were made via FedEx packages.
It got very tiresome near the end of the project when someone with more holes than cheese would say, "that can't happen" even though we were standing there watching it screw up.