As an ex-automotive supplier I too think that the woes that the big 3 are having is in large part by their "in your face" procurement policies. Most of my life has been selling aerospace products but I took an eight year term selling aluminum die-castings and became a part owner in the company. Our market was largely automotive and I have never seen such incompentency and fraudulent behavior in procurement, quality control, and engineering. At the end of the day the customer didn't care about anything except how low your price was. If you didn't authorize discounts they would take them anyway. When someone would go out of business they would move the job with the expectation that the last guy's price would be the ceiling and you would have to discount by at least 15% after 3 years. "it just has to make it through the warranty period" became a common statement that we would hear.
Work moved overseas would be manufactured to lower standards than what was mandated in the US and even the metal would not be traceable to any US standards. Garba-loy or China-loy would be good enough. Guess why there are so many vehicle recalls.
The Japanese (Honda, Toyota, Nissan) would never treat us like that however.
Henry Ford had the right idea. His brilliance was shown when he reasoned that if he paid his workers enough, they could buy a car.
The big 3 have put people out of work all over and they now wonder what has happened to their sales volume. The people are voting and Honda and Toyota sales are showing the trend.
Very glad to be back in aerospace now. By the way, I drive a Ford.
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