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Maquila sunrise: Jobs headed back to Mexico:
Today, Mexico’s pumping out more jet engines, semiconductors, and engine harnesses than its old staples like textiles and basic electronics. And that’s creating jobs for Mexican engineers inside the maquilas, like the Gulfstream Aerospace plant in Mexicali.
Read more about lean manufacturing (Toyota Production System) that values the performance improvement over short term savings on our management improvement blog. The kind of thing that allows Toyota to make a great deal of money manufacturing in the USA while Ford and GM can’t seem to do as well.
The hiring of engineers is another example why manufacturing is so important to an economy (other valuable jobs like engineering are associated with it). And another example of why having engineers is so important (without them convincing manufacturers to move will be difficult (and those you do will often be short sited companies that don’t provide the value to an economy that companies like Toyota do).
Related: Science and Engineering Macroeconomic Investment - Mexico Engineering Graduates - The Future is Engineering - How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers - Manufacturing Value Added Economic Data - America’s Manufacturing Future - Curious Cat Management Improvement Jobs
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