Goodish news, but I wouldn't be popping those champagne corks just yet. It seems disingenuous to me to say that the return of 10% of those losses is somehow this massive sea change. But more to the point, I think we have to be careful we don't overstate how many jobs are actually going to come back ever. This is the kicker. Even as jobs come back, technology is what it is, and we'll never see the levels that we saw (or that people have come to expect). It's also pretty sad that a big part of why this is happening is that wages have stagnated so much. I'm not sure that's worth celebrating.U.S. factory payrolls have grown for four straight years, with gains totaling about 650,000 jobs. That's a small fraction of the 6 million lost in the previous decade, but it still marks the biggest and longest stretch of manufacturing increases in a quarter century.
[One] company can now produce an alternator with one worker in the time it took four workers in China.
It's still plenty possible to avoid this situation...namely, establishing a total quality management program and acceptance sampling plans. Unless you're making something very critical, and very precise, you shouldn't be at 100% testing. Anyway, that's me being nit-picky, it's good that jobs are coming back from offshoring but I'm interested in how long-term these gains will be as automation continues to hold its own."We got to the point where everything we were bringing in had to be inspected," says Lonnie Kane, president of Los Angeles apparel maker Karen Kane, noting that his company used to check just 10% of goods from China.
Sampling works great with consistent manufacturing and you low failure rates. If you consistently fail your sampling plan but the product is long flow then you need to do 100% receiving inspection to segregate bad product from passable product. If you rejected everything that failed sampling you would have no product.
True, if those lots aren't high volume. If the quality of product/material that you're receiving is that poor though, I'd imagine you'd want to go pay your contract manufacturer a visit to figure out what's going on.