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Posted by Ludwig on December 29, 1999 at 14:52:17 from (208.201.105.20):
I read the thread about overseas tractor production and thought you might be interested in a story:
I was talking to an executive from Cat one time a couple of years ago, '96 I think. I asked him why they had moved all their production to Korea, I thought that this would alienate alot of their buyers.
He told me about some of the manufacturing troubles they had been having, he told me about strikes because they replaced workers with machines. He said that they just couldn't afford to produce machines here anymore.
The kicker to me was that he seemed really sad about this. Apparently in Cat management there was an attempt to phase out many of the manual jobs that would be replaced by robots. He said they wanted to train some of those people to operate and repair the machines, but it was no use, in the end the had layoffs, and it was tough times.
Now Cat has to work hard to keep there metelurgy up to snuff and have to transport alot of metal halfway around the world, turn it into tractors, and then ship those tractors back, but its still alot cheaper than paying the human operators to machine stuff by hand.... There ain't no way for everybody to win.
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