GM Halting Truck Production

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NorthDallas40 said:
He hasn’t done a damn thing one way or the other he’s too focused on chocolate double chip, unsecuring our borders, and pandering to the far left progressives. And hell yes he owns his 6 months of sitting around with his thumb up his ass.
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Come on Dallas..He is working on getting us raises in 2022.
 
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Also, if you get in an accident good luck getting your vehicle back soon if anything electronic is involved.

Furniture and appliances are also scarce in certain markets. It was a bi%ch to find a fridge for my condo in the OBX.
 
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What is the reason behind the chip shortage? Seriously. And serious replies only please.

I'm aware there is one but haven't read about the underlying reason. I assume it's supply chain or labor, or combo
 
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lawgator1 said:
What is the reason behind the chip shortage? Seriously. And serious replies only please.

I'm aware there is one but haven't read about the underlying reason. I assume it's supply chain or labor, or combo
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Because Biden likes double chocolate chip and ate em all.
 
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lawgator1 said:
What is the reason behind the chip shortage? Seriously. And serious replies only please.

I'm aware there is one but haven't read about the underlying reason. I assume it's supply chain or labor, or combo
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Labor shortages. Worldwide I assume. Certainly in the US.

These lead to raw material shortages to make the gadgets you want.

Additionally, the worldwide flow of container ships got completely discombobulated during all the sporadic, this country is closed now. Oh now we are closed. Etc. Hard to load up empty ships in Asia, when they are lined up on the west coast of the US trying to still get unloaded.

Whole mess of reasons. The worldwide shutdowns were a complete cluster**** of an idea.
 
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allvol123 said:
Additionally, the worldwide flow of container ships got completely discombobulated during all the sporadic, this country is closed now. Oh now we are closed. Etc. Hard to load up empty ships in Asia, when they are lined up on the west coast of the US trying to still get unloaded.
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If shipping was a real problem they could put them on planes. It's a production issue.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Ok. I guess in my mind it ought to be fixavle easily. But I'm not in the business
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No nothing about the sky net entity we call the global supply chain is easy or easily fixable.

The linked article is laughable. That automotive manufacturers are the kings of global supply chain. Hell they are the baseline model for the most part. And they have been massively idled

Many of these industries run low materials and completed product inventory. Inventory is overhead. Needless overhead is tied up capital. Corporate America/World hates that.

Semiconductor industries aren’t a “light switch” industry. It can take multiple months to grow the raw silicone or gallium arsenide wafers upon which you imprint the integrate circuits via various doping methods and then lithographically add the interconnect metalization layers. It’s multiple months end to end.

The industries knowing this pre order and build in the lead time into their own product lead time.

That all got broken last year and rippled thru as it idled. Nobody cared since we only cared about toilet paper. Now that things are opening back up and demand is surging you’re also seeing the restart ripple thru. That’s it
 
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I live near a Microcenter right now. In order to prevent online sales from snapping up all of the products but bulk buyers and resellers, they put a good portion of incoming product for in-store sales only, and at a limited number.

When Intel, amd, and Nvidia announce a product release date, people now camp out in front of the store because of the thin amount of product coming in.

It's time to bring chip manufacturing home.
 
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AshG said:
I live near a Microcenter right now. In order to prevent online sales from snapping up all of the products but bulk buyers and resellers, they put a good portion of incoming product for in-store sales only, and at a limited number.

When Intel, amd, and Nvidia announce a product release date, people now camp out in front of the store because of the thin amount of product coming in.

It's time to bring chip manufacturing home.
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Not going to happen. We do still have some fabs here but they are strategic components largely feeding the MIC
 
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allvol123 said:
I tell ya, if you were a poorly run company with fat supplies of goods during 2020, you have made out in 2021.
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It works in theory but rarely in practice. Most have to carry some inventory because there will always be a hiccup at the top or the bottom that disrupts everything.
 
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C-south said:
It works in theory but rarely in practice. Most have to carry some inventory because there will always be a hiccup at the top or the bottom that disrupts everything.
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Working to constantly reduce over production, excess stock, wasted motion are all great concepts to work towards.

Businesses didnt factor in the greatest screw up in governing in world history into their plans.
 
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It doesn't necessarily have a direct impact on the auto manufacturing situation, but the dumb dumb crypto miners have been gobbling up a lot of computer components that might otherwise be put to productive use.
 
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I didn't even think about how this might affect after market parts...its either gonna be thru the roof to get some electronic parts now or put it in the garage until prices come down...better stock up on the electrical tape...that will be the next shortage..ppl buying it to cover up their check engine lights
 
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allvol123 said:
Working to constantly reduce over production, excess stock, wasted motion are all great concepts to work towards.

Businesses didnt factor in the greatest screw up in governing in world history into their plans.
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They are great concepts to work towards but in my experience every time there was a disruption somewhere along the line it cost us more to get back on track than it would’ve to carry a little inventory….And this was in the best of times.
 
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