2010/9/28 doug metzler <[email protected]>: > Hmm, I think you're not seeing the bigger picture. He's not doing this to > recover his costs. He doesn't care about the money. He's doing this to try > to bring about the revival of the hard manufacturing base in the US. His > goal is not to build parts, his goal is to entice major manufacturers back > to the US by offering high-quality, highly skilled local machinists in local > shops. If this goes he may make a major contribution to the reversal of the > outsourcing trend (which actually is showing a few signs of reversal > already).
Well, technically, he also is offering machining services as an outsourced partner. But, if I understand You correctly, the goal is to the job inside the US, opposite to current situation that jobs are outsourced to partners outside the US. The idea is very nice, and there are several points of BUT: 1) existing providers of the outsourced machining service might have objective reasons for a cost advantage - starting from cheaper labor to cheaper premises, electricity etc 2) existing providers might be closer equipment manufacturer and get their machinery cheaper thus also contributing to cost advantage 3) they might be closer to material sources 4) there must be other reasons for cost advantages These things can be dealt and one can overcome them, I just think that somebody else might already have done that. You are saying that there are trends that support this, I think we just have to wait and see, how it turns out. Actually, I find this case very interesting from business point of view :) Would love to hear/read more Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
