I am going to let you in on a little secret...auto manufacturing is one of the most low tech manufacturing items available today. Anyone can be trained to work on an assembly line in less than 3 minutes. The reason the foreign companies have the advantage is they can fire the incompetent, and the lazy. Our auto companies do not have that luxury.......
> I am going to let you in on a little secret...auto manufacturing is one of the most low tech manufacturing items available today.
I suspect that if the Chinese aren’t using robots by now, they will be very soon.
I thought one of the reasons the foreigns are doing so well here was because they DO spend the money and time to thoroughly train the line workers, and not just on one station, but on many different ones so they can react to market and personnel changes. Not that being able to fire someone if it’s just not working out isn’t a huge competitive advantage.
Have you noticed how ironic it is that it’s almost impossible to fire someone for cause in America today, but firing them (laying them off) for NO cause is the easiest thing in the world.