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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 495187" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>Good post, but there some more to it.</p><p> </p><p>Honda built an assembly plant in Greensberg Indiana a couple years back. The town is roughly an hour south of Indy, and close to midway between Indy and Cinncinatti. The land was there, and they liked the location (friends of mine owned the land they bought). And assembly plant is one thing, but a parts plant is another. G.M. built a huge plant in Tennessee only to find out that there was nobody there that knew how to cut a gear or run a CNC machine center. They ended up bringing folks in from Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan on the skill factor alone. Honda's assembly plant employs about 1600 to 1800 people, and I gather that Honda treats their employees very well. But what most folks fail to realize is that with the assembly plant going in down there; it created about 3000 addition jobs for the area! Everything from the small job shops to the lunch counter. Allison Transmission is located in Speedway Indiana (been there since WWI). They employ about 2500 people (rough guess). Most of the jobs are semi skilled or flat out skilled. Very few low skilled jobs in the place. But they also outsource parts to Fairfield Gear and many job shops in a 125 mile radius. It's a rather large trickle down scheme of things that actually impacts closer to 10,000 jobs. They tried to build a plant in Memphis TN several years ago, and it never made the first part. There wasn't anybody usefull in the local labor pool. Allison is looking for land right now, and I'd have to guess the labor pool will come out of Ohio and Indiana for the gear cutting operations alone. </p><p> </p><p> With what I posted above, we need to rethink the way we educate out kids! When I have to send a kid right out of high school, or with two years of college back to take math courses we got a problem! It takes the average Joe about four to six months to really be able to run a five axis machine center (some never figure it out). Yet all they know is load the part and press a button. Just don't work that way! My Dad was a Master Toolmaker, and he had me reading mics within a tenth by the time I was in the 8th grade. I was turning threads in the 9th. Yet I was never able to completely understand some of the things he simply spoke of as a matter of fact. My Brother Inlaw was the opposite. He was a natural, and the old man thought he could walk on water. Guys like him don't come around very often, and you must take advantage of them when you find one. Yet we want to cut a gear within .00075", and can't figure out why we can't.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 495187, member: 25383"] Good post, but there some more to it. Honda built an assembly plant in Greensberg Indiana a couple years back. The town is roughly an hour south of Indy, and close to midway between Indy and Cinncinatti. The land was there, and they liked the location (friends of mine owned the land they bought). And assembly plant is one thing, but a parts plant is another. G.M. built a huge plant in Tennessee only to find out that there was nobody there that knew how to cut a gear or run a CNC machine center. They ended up bringing folks in from Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan on the skill factor alone. Honda's assembly plant employs about 1600 to 1800 people, and I gather that Honda treats their employees very well. But what most folks fail to realize is that with the assembly plant going in down there; it created about 3000 addition jobs for the area! Everything from the small job shops to the lunch counter. Allison Transmission is located in Speedway Indiana (been there since WWI). They employ about 2500 people (rough guess). Most of the jobs are semi skilled or flat out skilled. Very few low skilled jobs in the place. But they also outsource parts to Fairfield Gear and many job shops in a 125 mile radius. It's a rather large trickle down scheme of things that actually impacts closer to 10,000 jobs. They tried to build a plant in Memphis TN several years ago, and it never made the first part. There wasn't anybody usefull in the local labor pool. Allison is looking for land right now, and I'd have to guess the labor pool will come out of Ohio and Indiana for the gear cutting operations alone. With what I posted above, we need to rethink the way we educate out kids! When I have to send a kid right out of high school, or with two years of college back to take math courses we got a problem! It takes the average Joe about four to six months to really be able to run a five axis machine center (some never figure it out). Yet all they know is load the part and press a button. Just don't work that way! My Dad was a Master Toolmaker, and he had me reading mics within a tenth by the time I was in the 8th grade. I was turning threads in the 9th. Yet I was never able to completely understand some of the things he simply spoke of as a matter of fact. My Brother Inlaw was the opposite. He was a natural, and the old man thought he could walk on water. Guys like him don't come around very often, and you must take advantage of them when you find one. Yet we want to cut a gear within .00075", and can't figure out why we can't. gary [/QUOTE]
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