Haas automation started in the early 1980s and was primarily successful because it leveraged the (new at the time) microprocessors to drive machine tools. I was there in the early 1990s, right when this silly article said that machine tool manufacturing was leaving the US.
There was lots of "making stuff" but the value of the company was largely the "office work" that happened off the shop floor, in the sales, support, development, etc. I'm not sure but I'd guess that 2/3rds of the employees were "white collar" jobs, even at a company that made machine tools
There was lots of "making stuff" but the value of the company was largely the "office work" that happened off the shop floor, in the sales, support, development, etc. I'm not sure but I'd guess that 2/3rds of the employees were "white collar" jobs, even at a company that made machine tools