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Is Ford's auto-xchange the "Real Deal?" (Survey Response 4)

Is Ford's auto-xchange the "Real Deal?" (Survey Response 4)

Mesa, Environmental Consultant, Minneapolis, U.S.

I feel a need to speak kindly about FMC. They have been a mainstay in our society and a real innovator, when there weren't any.

Ford Plant closings are telling of the state of affairs of our auto industry in the US overall.
A closing plant is scrapped out up yo 95%!
That is simply an antiquated facility.
Mechanics jobs at good wages are lost.
That is becoming commonplace in our society at this time.
Once jobs are lost the rarely return. And FMC is keeping people working as best they can these days...CO2 emmissions goals or not...

Our infrastructure in the US Manufacturing Plant is so out-dated they cannot possible continue to compete at the current rates, and we are seeing them all slip and tumble.
The US Stimulus package of 2008 does offer a tax break for companies like Ford to write -off all new equipment purchased this year. However the technology and the equipment manufacturing of parts to service these plants may not be able to keep up with demand. Also the plants, such as Ford, need sales to drive the need for the new manufacturing equipment to be ordered. And the collapse of the US Dollar is slowing sales demand.

Manufacturing plants with such antiquated equipment are like an old woman who has had too many children...the body, or framework, has worn out. It is natural.
You need to look at these operations expenses and how they actually operate on site to see that the great state of disrepair that everything we knew or took for granted about these operations is stunningly over.

Ford has served the US well. It deserves our respect and our support to allow itself to morph or die.

The real question here is has the auto industry gone the way of the airlines and out-priced itself for the consumer (demand) by devouring it's profits and skimping on it's product (supply)?
It all comes down to Management, always.





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