Design engineers can still work in America even though the products
might be produced elsewhere. For further thought: Several months ago I
read an article (wish I remembered where) whose author maintained that
3D printing would eventually kill Chinese manufacturing by bringing
production of numerous products back home. 3D printing is already well
into using metals and other very durable materials. As the technology
rapidly improves and the size of printers grows it will be possible to
directly produce many very complex products with little or no assembly
required and also to make custom versions or variations in very low volume.
The effect of this will be to eliminate much of the manual labor
involved in making consumer products and thus eliminate the Chinese low
labor cost advantage. Unfortunately, it also means that those unskilled
labor jobs are not returning with the products. I have no answer to the
economic problems you pose but have no doubt that more efficiency will
ultimately be economically beneficial.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/15/2014 9:12 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
We can't survive economically if we're buying all consumer goods from outside
the country.
Will the last design engineer in America please turn off the lights?
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