<story><title>Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory</title><url>https://toolguyd.com/milwaukee-tool-new-usa-factory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gurumeditations</author><text>American manufacturing looks like low-wage workers making $12 an hour (a few years ago) making windshields. A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products. Basically what the Chinese are continually getting better at.&lt;p&gt;There is no hope. America can’t even agree on giving community college to poor kids, let alone training a generation of toolmakers, electronic engineers, programmers, and every other profession involved in making things out of atoms more complex than a handtool or a radiator. This country is dying and wildly unstable politically.</text></item><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>That manufacturing process is the result of bean counters determining it&amp;#x27;s a waste to ship boxed products that are 50% air overseas in a container. Ship the broken down components instead with denser packing and have a minimum wage worker bolt it together stateside. It isn&amp;#x27;t an enlightened return to domestic production.</text></item><item><author>stacktrust</author><text>A handful of DeWalt power tools are &amp;quot;assembled from global materials&amp;quot; in USA, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.allamericanmade.com&amp;#x2F;where-are-dewalt-tools-made&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.allamericanmade.com&amp;#x2F;where-are-dewalt-tools-made&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Jackson, TN      Air compressors
  Hempstead, MD    Drill and saw components
  Charlotte, NC    Cordless drills, screwdrivers
  Greenfield, IN   Grinder, recip saws, hammer drills&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>blt</author><text>This is good news, but Milwaukee is primarily a power tool company. Bringing power tool manufacturing back to the USA would be much bigger news.&lt;p&gt;Project Farm is a YouTube channel that reviews tools. I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that most of the made-in-USA products are relatively simple - hand tools, drill bits, adhesives, lubricants, and so on. Any complex assembly that includes electronics is almost invariably made in Asia.&lt;p&gt;It feels like the remaining made-in-USA tools are those where the manufacturer doesn&amp;#x27;t need to do much more than maintain some old machines and keep them fed with raw materials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwiswell</author><text>&amp;gt; A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products.&lt;p&gt;So like Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA Tencor? The global leaders in semiconductor machinery are predominantly American, with honorable mentions for the Japanese (Tokyo Electron, Dainippon Screen) and Dutch (ASML, ASMI).&lt;p&gt;Most of the equipment is made stateside, e.g. Applied Materials manufacturing is in Austin.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; America can’t even agree on giving community college to poor kids, let alone training a generation of toolmakers, electronic engineers, programmers, and every other profession involved in making things out of atoms more complex than a handtool or a radiator.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;America is doomed!&amp;quot; rhetoric is older than the hills and, while we are in decline as the global hegemon, economically we are still as vibrant as ever. Last year KLA Tencor opened a second headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan... not in China.</text></comment>
<story><title>Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory</title><url>https://toolguyd.com/milwaukee-tool-new-usa-factory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gurumeditations</author><text>American manufacturing looks like low-wage workers making $12 an hour (a few years ago) making windshields. A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products. Basically what the Chinese are continually getting better at.&lt;p&gt;There is no hope. America can’t even agree on giving community college to poor kids, let alone training a generation of toolmakers, electronic engineers, programmers, and every other profession involved in making things out of atoms more complex than a handtool or a radiator. This country is dying and wildly unstable politically.</text></item><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>That manufacturing process is the result of bean counters determining it&amp;#x27;s a waste to ship boxed products that are 50% air overseas in a container. Ship the broken down components instead with denser packing and have a minimum wage worker bolt it together stateside. It isn&amp;#x27;t an enlightened return to domestic production.</text></item><item><author>stacktrust</author><text>A handful of DeWalt power tools are &amp;quot;assembled from global materials&amp;quot; in USA, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.allamericanmade.com&amp;#x2F;where-are-dewalt-tools-made&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.allamericanmade.com&amp;#x2F;where-are-dewalt-tools-made&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Jackson, TN      Air compressors
  Hempstead, MD    Drill and saw components
  Charlotte, NC    Cordless drills, screwdrivers
  Greenfield, IN   Grinder, recip saws, hammer drills&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>blt</author><text>This is good news, but Milwaukee is primarily a power tool company. Bringing power tool manufacturing back to the USA would be much bigger news.&lt;p&gt;Project Farm is a YouTube channel that reviews tools. I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that most of the made-in-USA products are relatively simple - hand tools, drill bits, adhesives, lubricants, and so on. Any complex assembly that includes electronics is almost invariably made in Asia.&lt;p&gt;It feels like the remaining made-in-USA tools are those where the manufacturer doesn&amp;#x27;t need to do much more than maintain some old machines and keep them fed with raw materials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stacktrust</author><text>TSMC is sending recent American college graduates to Taiwan for 12-18 months of internship&amp;#x2F;training, in preparation for work at the TSMC fab in Phoenix, AZ, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29676073&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29676073&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>