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Comment Automotive companies don't make cars (Score 1) 240

In my first computery job, I worked at the company that made the majority of resistance (spot) welding transformers for the 'big three'. Heavy, greasy 80lb blocks of water-cooled copper and aluminum.
Stanley VanAntwerp, their wise and eccentric head of engineering and design told me this:

Ford, GM, and Chrysler don't make cars. They make factories. That's the product.
The line, the dies, the welding fixtures, the service parts, all of that, for the required years in service.
That's the hard part. That's the automotive industry.

Stan also told me "An engineer with a closed mind is useless".

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