A highly automated Texas factory was supposed to bring the manufacturing of Craftsman mechanics’ tools back to American shores. The $90 million project was doomed by equipment problems and slow production.
  • chop@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Paywall. tldr?

    Guessing… corporate incompetence and scaling problems and logistics and “muh supply chain” nonsense.

    • StarkillerX42@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The archive link gets around the paywall. The tldr as I understood it is that they gave up bringing it back to America after only a few years of trying through COVID. They never planned past the next quarter.