https://arstechnica.com/information...ro-production-from-texas-to-china/?comments=1
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Apple "struggled to find enough screws" when it began making the 2013 Mac Pro, a New York Times article explained. "Tests of new versions of the computer were hamstrung because a 20-employee machine shop that Apple's manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day." The screw shortage and other problems caused a months-long delay in Mac Pro sales.
It's mentioned right there.
Manufacturing in China gets you access to state-of-the-art factories and an extremely flexible supply chain. If your partner runs out of screws, you can easily get them from someone else.
Manufacturing is often better in China. It can be worse. But it can also be way better, and makes for much easier supply chains/logistics.
And for a lot of products, the landing costs pre-tariffs were equal between China and the US.
This happens when idiotic so cold journalists, dumb-ass commentators and consumer gadget making Corps get their stories out to the public.
Apple, the so called almost trillion dollars worth (on paper) US Corp. can only find a single screw manufacturing vendor in USA with 20 employees to make screws and that’s one of the reasons why Apple decided to move their Mac-Pro production to China!
I’ve spent over 30 years in 3 largest global US Manufacturing Corporation that are involved in design, development, production and procurement of parts or part-assemblies from local US and foreign vendors. We used foreign vendors from Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Italy only when they held patents or a processing technologies that we didn’t have; not because their products or manufacturing of those products were better or less expensive.
But cheap screws? If there aren’t (rly?) enough cheap screw manufacturers in USA for a consumer level computers made by Apple, then screw you - gtfo and move to China!
Quote from above:
Apple "struggled to find enough screws" when it began making the 2013 Mac Pro, a New York Times article explained. "Tests of new versions of the computer were hamstrung because a 20-employee machine shop that Apple's manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day." The screw shortage and other problems caused a months-long delay in Mac Pro sales.
It's mentioned right there.
Manufacturing in China gets you access to state-of-the-art factories and an extremely flexible supply chain. If your partner runs out of screws, you can easily get them from someone else.
Manufacturing is often better in China. It can be worse. But it can also be way better, and makes for much easier supply chains/logistics.
And for a lot of products, the landing costs pre-tariffs were equal between China and the US.
This happens when idiotic so cold journalists, dumb-ass commentators and consumer gadget making Corps get their stories out to the public.
Apple, the so called almost trillion dollars worth (on paper) US Corp. can only find a single screw manufacturing vendor in USA with 20 employees to make screws and that’s one of the reasons why Apple decided to move their Mac-Pro production to China!
I’ve spent over 30 years in 3 largest global US Manufacturing Corporation that are involved in design, development, production and procurement of parts or part-assemblies from local US and foreign vendors. We used foreign vendors from Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Italy only when they held patents or a processing technologies that we didn’t have; not because their products or manufacturing of those products were better or less expensive.
But cheap screws? If there aren’t (rly?) enough cheap screw manufacturers in USA for a consumer level computers made by Apple, then screw you - gtfo and move to China!