Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Essential Skills For Manufacturing


  1. CAD (Computer Aided Design) for 3D plans
  2. CNC programming (Computer controlled robot milling machine programming)
  3. CNC and Manual Machining (how to machine things and understand tolerances)
  4. TIG Welding (joining many kinds of metals with a special welding torch)
  5. Structural Engineering
  6. Metallurgy and Heat Treating
  7. Vaccuum pumps and gases
  8. Metal cutting (via heat and via shear cutter and die)
  9. Metal shaping (grinding and bending)
  10. Surface finishing and treatment
  11. Carbon and glass fiber construction methods
  12. Mold Making (for casting metals, ceramics, and for carbon fiber vacuum molds)
  13. Ergonomics
  14. Assembly Line setup and equipment
  15. Payroll and Bookeeping
  16. First Aid and OSHA safety hazards
  17. Hazardous Materials
  18. Grants and loans
  19. Packing and shipping
  20. Staged contracts
  21. Marketing
  22. Warehousing
  23. Fork Lift operation
  24. Long haul trucking overview
  25. Rail freight overview
I think this is what you'd need to go into business making something physical, manufacturing a tool, part, or vehicle. You'd need to know all of it because you really can't count on someone else when the entire thing is extensive risk until such time as the politicians put trade tariffs on China. Until then, the above is an investment in a future that won't mean much without a way to stop them dumping goods below cost, something they've been doing for nearly 20 years now. We are at war with China, and they are winning. Every time an American buys a Chinese product instead of the more expensive, legally produced, American one, we lose a battle in this war. As long as politicians take bribes to keep that "free trade" going with China, we're betrayed to our own bad end. There is no full employment in America so long as Chinese people have our jobs. 

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