US re-industrialization a complete and total failure, absolutely no chance to succeed. 美國的再工業化徹底失敗，絕對沒有成功的機會

Industrialization is clearly a simple task, so why is reindustrialization in the United States so difficult?

Let me share a true story: A Chinese company’s sister company in the US was experiencing extremely poor performance, so they sent engineers from China to provide support.

I had previously read various online comments, suggesting that Americans had simply enjoyed their good life for too long and couldn’t even get into the factory to screw in screws. However, according to Xiaohongshu, they were able to work three jobs and work themselves to death, and even then, everyone assumed screwing in screws wasn’t that difficult. The only explanation was perhaps a difference in values.

In the end, after colleagues from this company went to provide support, the feedback they received was that during their daily follow-up meetings, they realized: 👉The people in the American factory were different from what we thought. They weren’t unwilling to work, but rather, they had lost their problem-solving skills.

To give a simple example, raw materials for injection molding cannot be mixed, so each injection molding machine has a mixing drum next to it. Many machines in the American factory were broken and inoperable, and some drums were broken, halting production because the good machines were being used with the broken drums. Our Chinese colleagues who were there to support us asked if we could just swap the good material bucket next to the broken machine and move it to the working machine.

Our American colleagues said, “But the raw materials can’t be mixed. There’s leftover material in each bucket.” Our former colleagues continued to suggest, “Can we just pool the leftover materials of the same type together?” They suddenly realized the solution and, with a flurry of activity, called the support engineers to the site. “Look, we’ve combined the like materials, freeing up two good buckets. We can continue production.” Seeing their expressions as if they were saviors, they raved and praised us profusely. “What a great job!”

We’ve heard from them that there are many similar issues. For example, if a mold has four cavities and one of the product dimensions is off, and they don’t know how to fix the mold, they block the feed port. This means only one of the four cavities is usable, completely eliminating production efficiency and equipment utilization.

The most dramatic incident was when a toilet was blocked and all production stopped. They felt that if they needed to use the restroom and couldn’t use it, it would affect production. They didn’t know how to fix it, so they just stopped. But they didn’t leave the factory… The colleagues sent to support them, from senior executives to production supervisors, and now production team leaders and mold repairers, were only able to handle urgent shipments. They were eager to work hard and could follow directions when given them, but when faced with problems, they didn’t know what to do.

So, I don’t really know what’s wrong with American industry. I can only truthfully record the reality of what I’ve heard. Perhaps this is a microcosm of the difficulties of industrialization in the United States!

工業化明明是一件簡單的事，為什麼美國的再工業化會如此艱難？

我來給大家分享一個真事：國內有個公司在美國的兄弟公司，因為業績實在太差，因此從中國派工程師去做支持。

之前看網上的各種評論，覺得老美都是好日子過久了，沒法進廠打螺絲，可是小紅書對賬，他們能兼三份工，能賣血，都到了這個地步，大家肯定認為打螺絲並沒有那麼難啊，只能解釋為可能價值觀不同。

結果，等這個公司的同事過去支持后，反饋回來的是，他們每天進行跟進會議的時候才發現：👉美國工廠的人跟咱們想的不一樣，他們不是不肯工作，而是喪失了解決問題的能力。

舉個簡單的例子，注塑的原料不能混用，所以每一台注塑機旁邊有配料桶。美國工廠有好多機器是壞的，不能運作，也有一些料桶是壞的，然後生產停下來了，因為好的機器配的是壞的料桶。去那邊支持的國內同事啟發他們，能不能換一下，把壞機器旁的好料桶換到好的機器旁邊呢？

美國同事說，可是原料不能混，每個桶里都有剩餘的料啊。過去的同事繼續啟發，能不能把同類的剩料集中在一起呢？他們恍然大悟，然後一頓猛如虎的操作，把這些支援工程師叫到現場，說你看，我們合併了同類料，騰出了兩個好的料桶，可以繼續生產了。看着他們宛如救世英雄一樣的表情，他們大肆讚揚，真的太優秀了！

據反饋，其實同類的事情還有很多，比如一個模具四個穴，哪個產品尺寸有點問題，不會修模，就把進料口堵住，四穴的模具只有一穴能用，完全談不上生產效率和設備利用率。

最誇張的是，有一次廁所堵了，所有的生產都停下來了，因為他們覺得當需要上廁所又無法用的時候，會影響生產，他們不知道該怎麼解決，所以就停下來了。可是，他們並沒有離開工廠……那些派去支持的同事，從高管，到生產主管，現在是生產班組長和模修工。

然而，這些人只能解決需要緊急發貨的情況。他們很想努力，指明方向後也能按照要求去做，只是面臨問題的時候，他們不知道，應該做什麼。

所以說，其實我也不知道，美國的工業發生了什麼問題，只能如實記錄我聽到的這個真實情況，這或許就是美國工業化難的一個縮影吧！