It's crazy how in order to make chain mail in the middle ages they had to smelt iron, draw it into wire, bend and cut it into tiny rings, link them, and hammer them together by hand and it took months of labor so only the richest people could afford it, and now we have a massive industrial complex that could make each and every human on earth a full body suit of chain mail in less than a week but we just don't because we don't want to.
Pres Biden & his administration have had many successes. One of their accomplishments has been to restart American manufacturing. Biden & Dems must take credit & amplify it:
"Trump talked a lot about bring manufacturing back to America.
But under Biden, manufacturing investment has grown faster than any time in recent history. And it's not even close.
During Trump's presidency, manufacturing spending grew by 5%. Under Biden it has grown by 279%."
-Michael Thomas
There is lots of talk about the impact of #Brexit on exporters (and importers), from the #foodsector to #manufacturing, but much less on how it is effecting small scale artisans & craftspeople.
Patricia Lovett MBE has prepare an overview for MPs which include a link to her evidence to Parliament & a long summary of individual concerns.
This just adds to the evidence that #BrexitReality has had major widespread negative effects already!
Has anyone here used Xometry for getting parts machined? I understand how their system works, and I can totally see the benefit of having access to a wide variety of capabilities through their supplier network. However, they are a middleman, and I’m curious whether their markup makes it uneconomical except for high volume production?
The Purchase Managers Index (PMI) is a much watched lead indicator for #business sentiment - above 50% more firms are positive about the future, below more are negative... so what's interesting is not so much the composite measure but the divergence between expectations in #services & #manufacturing.... the Q. is (relating to a recent post) whether we should worry about the negative sentiment in manufacturing or see it as more evidence that the UK really is pivoting towards services?
'a political class which learns to like the things the country does well, rather than the things it feels it “ought” to do well, or wishing that the things it did well were older, more macho or involved more heavy machinery'.
Our successful economic sectors, they are undervalued by Govt.
While I disagree with the implicit downgrading of #manufacturing, Bush makes a powerful point!
The Boeing 737 Max 9 failure of the planes fuselage plug area is a direct example of the failure of corporate America and capitalism in general, here's why.
At Boeing there is clearly a:
Failure of Process and Quality Control implementation and enforcement.
Corporate culture that enables engineering and manufacturing defects, and fails to provide adequate management oversight.
Reliance on manufacturing outsourcing for theoretical cost reduction.
General sloppiness due to a virtual monopoly in US manufacturing and an oligopoly in international competition.
Recognition that no one person at Boeing, or their contractors, will be held criminally liable for injury or death due to manufacturing or design defects that could have been knowingly identified and remediated.
Allowance of periodic failures that become a cost of doing business and insurance liability.
This incident can't be dismissed as a one-off event.
The AXIOM Electronics Manufactring Line: On The Move now has a proper music video 😊 and lots of insights into what now seems to appear to have been a pretty easy job in 2 minutes - it actually wasn't ....
The good news is UK's dependence on #fossilfuels for #electricity generation has fallen to levels last seen in 1957;
the less good news is this is partly due to imported power (partly #nuclear) & partly due to a decline in demand due to the decline of UK #manufacturing.
Increasing use of electricity to achieve #netzero means electricity use is expected to double(!) by 2050 (despite more efficient tech), so, our shift to #greenenergy currently still looks too slow!
When you leave a trading bloc, there can only be one result; trade into that market becomes more difficult (& no amount of claims around 'new arrangements' will lessen that 'friction').
MakeUK's most recent survey merely confirms that this is the case. #Brexiters may think this is a 'price worth paying' for 'taking back control'; for anyone working in #manufacturing its a bitter pill as customers tell UK firms:
'we know you do a great job, but dealing with the UK is just too much trouble now'!
OC AI in Manufacturing: Applications, Examples & Benefits (www.ediiie.com)
AI in manufacturing sees the convergence of smart computing and algorithms with tasks that dictate the intricacies of the work.