Via Insty:
Read. All of it. Understand what has happened to our manufacturing and design base in this country.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Via Insty:
Read. All of it. Understand what has happened to our manufacturing and design base in this country.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Don't forget the impact that regulation has on any company that makes use of processes/chemicals to create a product. If you can't get licensed to manufacture in anything other than a multi-billion dollar facility, the work will go to a low bidder in China.
Been happening at least since the mid-80s. Too late to change now without massive changes in thinking starting with legal thinking in Congress – and part of it will require some making LOTs of money now to need to make less.
Our technology development has a strong flavor of repainting the same set of Legos a different color and calling it "new".
Better the recycled known than the risky unknown.
Research and development requires procedures: safety, accounting, risk mitigation. Can't do "that" without the proper paperwork.
How do you do something new if the regulations require the following of the old?
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