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 The Industrial Manifesto!
This is why we fight.
These are the Seeds of Revolution!
Once in
every generation there comes a time when the fate of the world and life
as we know it hang in the balance and one wrong move will swing the scales
in a direction that brings about nothing but ruin to our way of life. At
this very moment, the scales are tilted in just such a direction - they are
titled toward the Age of Information. To balance
the scales and to bring this world back to what is considered moral
right and just, we must put all energies into returning to a less
complex and uncluttered way of life. We must bring about the Industrial
Revolution. We must make the fruits of our labours meaningful and not
merely a point on some matrix. We must use our bodies as well as our
mind to create what we know is for the betterment of all humanity. For
those who feel that information is the only answer, we must totally and
utterly destroy them with the might of what our hands can create.
The Paradigm of Quality and LeanIndustry has lost its edge in making what is loosely called 'junk'. Quality costs money and this is why the industrial backbone of this country is losing ground to foreign competition. For instance, if a person needed to buy a hacksaw for a weekend project they had planned would they pay $20 for an professional grade tool made to exacting standards and of the highest quality or would they pay $6 dollars for a tool that will get the job done and probably sit on their workbench until another project arises that requires this tool? The answer is simple for those who have more brains than money, the individual would buy what is needed at the lowest possible price. Can this country produce a $6 hacksaw? Yes, but industry would need to change the way it is conducted in some very foundamental ways. First, industry needs to reacquire the ability to produce less than perfect products. Second, throw out all of the lean gimics and return to doing what made this country great, mass producing goods. Ecomonies of scale prove that when a product is produced on a grand scale, the cost of the product will drop leading to the cost to the consumer falling. Also, producing on a grand scale will eliminate the smaller, leaner companies - Darwin would call this survival of the fittest, but on these terms it would be considered survival of the companies that can crush the competition. The room for industrial development is available, the resources for producing on a grand scale are within the borders of the country, the skilled workers (though everyday the number is decreasing due to lack of use) are there, so there is no reason why this country cannot accomplish the work that is required of it. We must break free of the quality paradigm, we must be willing to produce a product that is less than perfect, we must destroy our competitors and regain the lead in this global economy. These are the things that must be done, and we are the ones who will do it.
Can you sell lean to your customers? If you happen to be a consultant, the answer may well be yes. But if you are producing a product or offering a service, do will your customers buy lean? This at first sounds like a stupid question, but what are your customers buying from you? Your customers do not care how the good or service is accomplished, the only conern that they have is whether or not they are receiving what they are paying for, when they expect it, and at a price they are willing to pay. So what is the driving force behind the "new and improved" means of doing business. To answer this, one only needs to look to those who benfit the most from reduced inventory levels, only working at pace that will produce only what is needed, maintaining prices that will produce a maximum profit with a minumal amount of effort. And the answer that rises from the depths of Hell is Wall Street and the entire stockmarket process for it has been said that he who controls the money supply controls the country, and this still holds true though not many will admit to this being the case. To break the stranglehold of those who force us into servitude that there is little or no chance of escaping, wew must tear down the paper cells that hold us. We must forge the tools of our escape and the chains that will forever hold the greed of the financial markets of this world. What philosphy do you want driving your business? Do you want to be Chinese or Japanese? Lean makes sense to the Japanese because they have limited space and limited resources to produce their goods. The Chinese nearly have an exact opposite approach to manufacturing being that they have the resources and available space to produce in vast quantities. The Japanese produce what the market can support whereas the Chinese produce in a quantity that is designed to flood the market and eliminate the weaker competitor. Do you want to be a reed bending in the wind or do you want to be the wind? The choice is simple to those versed in the ways of war, use your opponents weakness to destroy them. Take their industrial know-how and out produce them, out price them, out sell them and by these means you will destroy them.
We are the visionaries who look to change the future. We are those who are brave enough to venture into this new frontier. We are the revolutionaries who will bring about this change. The time to act is now. The need for change is now. The Revolution begins now.
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