Times has changed. It is not so such of a premium for a product to be made in USA or Japan.
I have a Malaysian Relative who went to work for Foxconn in China, and witness the challenges apple faces
when starting production of iPhone in China. It is not an easy tasks, but thru stringent quality control measures,
Apple manage to manufacture quality products at a fraction of the labor costs. This is the probably the same
for any other manufacturer.
Don't have this mental block that it is not possible to set up a lens factory and train Vietnam engineers already
with engineering degrees to maintain the same quality as the same Olympus or Nikon factory in Japan.
I have another friend from China working in a factory in Singapore. She told me it is a boring job as they don't
have to do anything much until the robots with AI red flagged a electronic board which did not pass the test. All
she need to do is to take out the board from the conveyor belt and send it to get the flagged component replaced.
This kind of AI assisted job can be done anywhere in the world!
I have a Malaysian Relative who went to work for Foxconn in China, and witness the challenges apple faces
when starting production of iPhone in China. It is not an easy tasks, but thru stringent quality control measures,
Apple manage to manufacture quality products at a fraction of the labor costs. This is the probably the same
for any other manufacturer.
Don't have this mental block that it is not possible to set up a lens factory and train Vietnam engineers already
with engineering degrees to maintain the same quality as the same Olympus or Nikon factory in Japan.
I have another friend from China working in a factory in Singapore. She told me it is a boring job as they don't
have to do anything much until the robots with AI red flagged a electronic board which did not pass the test. All
she need to do is to take out the board from the conveyor belt and send it to get the flagged component replaced.
This kind of AI assisted job can be done anywhere in the world!