Re: Employers Decoded (A path to find a good job)

On Aug 1, 5:34 pm, BottleBob <bottl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Half-nutz wrote:

On Aug 1, 5:04 pm, BottleBob <bottl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PM:

Or more accurately, a lot of production jobs and those with long lead
times tend to go to China and other third world countries. Prototype
and fast turnaround jobs seem to be a niche market that is still viable.
Once the production has gone to China WHO are going to do prototype
work for?
Do you think you can turn around prototype parts for a Chinese
manufacturer faster than some shop in China?

HN:

I was speaking about American companies that stay in America and just
outsource the production manufacturing aspect of their products. If the
WHOLE company goes to China... Adios - game over.

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BottleBobhttp://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob


Well, I guess that was my point.
Once the manufacturing leaves, WHY would the engineering stay on the
other side of the world?
I used to work in electronics. We had an in-house fab shop, we could
turn a chip design around, litterally in a matter of hours. Getting a
chip design turned around in a fab on the other side of the world
would take many months.
There was an engineering group on the other side of the world, near
the fab area.
How long can the engineering group compete with the group next door to
the fab facility?

While the theory of doing prototype work for an off-shored
manufacturing company sounds like a short term niche to fill, it IS
going to be a short term niche. And once the manufacturing leaves, the
rest of (what's left) will follow, or be pushed out of the market.

So, I do agree that you have identified a short term opportunity, I am
pointing out that it will most likely be a short term, temporary
situation for any particular product.
Once manufacuring leaves, engineering follows.

Look at the textile industry. Once the production arrived in the
colonies, the new engineering advancements occured principally at the
centers of production.

Lose the production, lose the war.

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