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BrikoX@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America

www.wsj.com

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Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America

www.wsj.com

BrikoX@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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A highly automated Texas factory was supposed to bring the manufacturing of Craftsman mechanics’ tools back to American shores. The $90 million project was doomed by equipment problems and slow production.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/677480

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Archived version: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5

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    Because they’re not as good as the Milwaukee folks, who do?

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      The problem was they wanted to make them without any folks.

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        Yeah, that doesn’t work.

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          But they will keep trying.

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            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.

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              If they could learn they wouldn’t be MBAs

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