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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/677480

Archived version: https://archive.ph/RQev4
Archived version: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aUlm5

  • StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml
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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.