The job cuts are part of an ongoing downsizing of the company's Blount County operations and transfer of production to a Ceramaspeed plant in Monterrey, Mexico.
Some "manual operations" have already been shifted to Mexico, and "automated production" operations will be moved to the Monterrey facility later this year.
So now we're outsourcing robot jobs, too? Do Mexican robots work cheaper than American robots? Have American robot unions priced themselves out of the U.S. labor market?
Submitted by Opinari on Mon, 2007/01/08 - 12:23pm.
Given my own experience in manufacturing, I am not surprised at something like this. The costs of maintaining and engineering automation equipment along with the costs of retooling them when product changes come along are often more than simply using human labor on basic, less sophisticated equipment.
Mexican robots won't be crossing over the border to score government handouts!
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
In the Global economy even robots can lose their jobs. Is WD-40 cheaper in Mexico?
Given my own experience in manufacturing, I am not surprised at something like this. The costs of maintaining and engineering automation equipment along with the costs of retooling them when product changes come along are often more than simply using human labor on basic, less sophisticated equipment.
Have American robot unions priced themselves out of the U.S. labor market?
But perhaps the people who run them and service them have.
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