cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/677480
Archived version: https://archive.ph/RQev4
Archived version: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5
“couldn’t”
Because they’re not as good as the Milwaukee folks, who do?
The problem was they wanted to make them without any folks.
Yeah, that doesn’t work.
But they will keep trying.
Eventually the MBAs will rediscover Gall’s Law:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
If they could learn they wouldn’t be MBAs
Paywall. tldr?
Guessing… corporate incompetence and scaling problems and logistics and “muh supply chain” nonsense.
Issues with the automation systems they tries implementing.
Yeah. A machine doesn’t have the flexibility and resiliency of a human. When a machine has a problem, it turns out defective products or nothing at all. A human can quickly identify and resolve a problem.
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.
The archive link gets around the paywall. The tldr as I understood it is that they gave up bringing it back to America after only a few years of trying through COVID. They never planned past the next quarter.
No planning past the next shareholder meeting?? I’m shocked. /s
It’s probably the tools at the top. They call the shots.
