https://www.reddit.com/r/Shortages/comments/ps8vsn/potential_u_joint_shortage_an_addition_to_the/
I've been paying particularly close attention to shortages along these lines. The chips and special parts going into our logistics system are at the root of making everything it transports possible. We don't even have the fancy AI trucks yet and yet the US runs on a network of semis and fleet trucks that are rapidly running out of replacement parts. The breakdowns in repair/production capacity are so scattershot that there's no telling what the transport delay will impact next. Those chips compete for production space with every other kind of vehicular computer system, let alone other kinds of chips a micorprocessor plant could retool to make.
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I currently work at a plant that manufactures redacted and we don't have enough bolt kits to send out all the product we can push, and no one in management is giving us a straight answer on when they will be available. Given that we are already behind on orders from last year in spite of running at full capacity through the pandemic, and doing most of our own fab work, this does not bode well for the future. They are betting on it being solved, because they are already laying down expansion plans, but who knows if that will actually happen.
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Got to chase that falling rate of profit
The shop i work at was already the kind to gerryrig any piece of equipment that came in, the fact that we can't even order some of the crucial parts for equipment means everything has slowed down in the region.