Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
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Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#2This reads like AI-produced ad text.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#3hope it sticks! Sears/craftsman tools were well respected before they dumped production overseas.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#4Raises the bar from whom? Klein has been making tools in the USA for over a century.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#5This reads like AI-produced ad text.
The human author of the text and this well-known blog is Stuart Deutsch, https://twitter.com/toolguyd
Toolguyd has an active community (e.g. 100+ comments on this post) with real-world experience, challenging claims made by the blog.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#6They've got a lot of bar to raise. Really all TTI hand tools have always been rather meh, so this could turn the tide.
For anyone interested, apparently Craftsman also just opened a huge hand tool plant in Texas.
Nice to see a little resurgence in locally sourced stuff.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#7Raises the bar from whom? Klein has been making tools in the USA for over a century.
Perhaps for Milwaukee. Any amount of turning back offshoring manufacturing is appreciated.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#8Milwaukee's battery tools are pretty great (M12 and M18 lines), but their hand tools aren't particularly good in my experience. So "raising the bar" for them would be just making hand tools that people want to buy over the competition.
Made in the US is fine/good/whatever, but what I want to see from them is tools that are just good in their own right. I want to see their hand tools top Project Farm charts like their battery stuff. Time will tell.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#9I don't think this will make much of a difference aside from the branding advantage. The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn't a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design. All the decisions made during that process and all the cost / performance considerations made are what determine the ultimate outcome.
It's common to blame Chinese manufacturing for cheap tools, but this gets the causation backwards. We wanted cheap tools and sending production overseas was the only way to get them. In fact because less is spent on labor, a better quality product can be had for the same price.
So bringing it back here without increasing the cost to the consumer means altering the design to make it cheaper to build, or banking on supply chain efficiencies to make it worthwhile.
Re: Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
#10This reads like AI-produced ad text.
The human author of the text and this well-known blog is Stuart Deutsch, https://twitter.com/toolguyd Toolguyd has an active community (e.g. 100+ comments on this post) with real-world experience, challenging claims made by the blog.
Wow. AI is now good enough that writers are considered robot until proven human.