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The Atlantic: Get Ready for Manufacturing’s Big Comeback.

“In August, Boston Consulting Group released a report predicting a global realignment in the manufacturing sector. By 2015, the firm believes that many kinds of production will be just as cheap in the U.S. as in China, especially in low volume, heavy goods where labor only makes up a small part of the cost equation. Those include products like car parts, construction equipment, and appliances.”

12/21/11 • 10:10 AM • Consumption • Economics • Home & Living • (2) Comments

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Increasing transportation/fuel costs will be big part of this--just this week we saw that Apple is putting (outsourced) chip production in Texas and I think there’s already been a boom in car plants in the US (Mercedes, BMW, all the Japanese brands).

Posted by BillSaysThis on 12/21/11 at 03:02 PM

That’s been the catastrophic-weather delays in the automobile industry’s JIT production schedules. They’ve been totally screwed by earthquakes, tsunamis and floods.

Now hard drive manufacturers - though Seagate’s now using maquiladoras in Mexico, right?

Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 12/21/11 at 04:27 PM

 

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