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Chinese factories are lying and they don’t even know it

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Post by Mao_Zedang »

There will be a point in time where reshoring (landing the manufacturing back in the country where goods are sold) becomes viable because human labor wont be used. If China hasnt grown its economy big enough to be a consumer of its own products to maintain employment for its citizens things will get ugly (USSR?). It will be interesting to see how their economy based on being the manufacturing hub of the world survives.

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Post by nxzero »

Mao_Zedang wrote: post #2

There will be a point in time where reshoring (landing the manufacturing back in the country where goods are sold) becomes viable because human labor wont be used. If China hasnt grown its economy big enough to be a consumer of its own products to maintain employment for its citizens things will get ugly (USSR?). It will be interesting to see how their economy based on being the manufacturing hub of the world survive…

Might be wrong, but my understanding is that China currently leads the world in robotic labor; meaning all robotic labor preformed by robots own by Chinese companies regardless of where the robots are.

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Post by Someone1234 »

This might be worth reading, but it is largely an advert for their product "Assembly CORE." The graphs only seem to exist to show that you need to buy their product (they have little substance beyond that).

The topic itself is interesting but without real and unbiased raw data on defects, it is hard to even discuss it.

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Post by toomuchtodo »

nxzero wrote: post #3
Mao_Zedang wrote: post #2

There will be a point in time where reshoring (landing the manufacturing back in the country where goods are sold) becomes viable because human labor wont be used. If China hasnt grown its economy big enough to be a consumer of its own products to maintain employment for its citizens things will get ugly (USSR?). It will be interesting to see how their economy based on being the manufacturing hub of the world survive…

Might be wrong, but my understanding is that China currently leads the world in robotic labor; meaning all robotic labor preformed by robots own by Chinese companies regardless of where the robots are.

If robots can be put anywhere, you put them where your customers are.

Re: Chinese factories are lying and they don’t even know it

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Post by Mao_Zedang »

nxzero wrote: post #3
Mao_Zedang wrote: post #2

There will be a point in time where reshoring (landing the manufacturing back in the country where goods are sold) becomes viable because human labor wont be used. If China hasnt grown its economy big enough to be a consumer of its own products to maintain employment for its citizens things will get ugly (USSR?). It will be interesting to see how their economy based on being the manufacturing hub of the world survive…

Might be wrong, but my understanding is that China currently leads the world in robotic labor; meaning all robotic labor preformed by robots own by Chinese companies regardless of where the robots are.

True or Not, it makes no difference, given the choice between a robotic product made in china delivered in two weeks and a robotic product made in the USA delivered in 24 hours, consumers will always pick the later. And given this example why would the cost be any different to the consumer? If anything you would expect the Chinese example to have higher shipping costs. When talking about a truly competitive global economy which we do not really have no because of wildly different costs of labor. A robot in the US costs just as much to run as in China.
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