Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Why US Manufacturing Faces MASSIVE Challenges Today #manufacturing

Name: Why US Manufacturing Faces MASSIVE Challenges Today #manufacturing
Uploaded: 2024-10-08T15:55:54+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: YouTube video by Tom Burton (uploaded Oct 8, 2024) arguing that building manufacturing plants in the U.S. is currently difficult. In this excerpt the…

8 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Tom Burton (uploaded Oct 8, 2024) arguing that building manufacturing plants in the U.S. is currently difficult. In this excerpt the speaker emphasizes electrical-side constraints: a shortage of electricians (contractors turning down work) and extremely long switchgear lead times ("40 something weeks/months"), based on anecdotal reports from the NECA conference.

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Yeah it's hard today to build manufacturing plants in the United States and avoid ports. Just so we're clear and again I'll take the electrical side of it just everybody's talking about hey sure from both sides again I'm not being included. Heard from the Republicans, hear from the Democrats we need to increase American manufacturing. It's hard to build factories today. Just so we're clear again just taking electrical. First of all we're short electricians. Anybody I talked to I was at the NECA conference last weekend and every contractor that I talked to said we're way short on people. We have to turn down jobs that we would love to take because we don't have people to do the work. Flip side to that is doesn't matter anyway because we don't have switchgear. We can't turn the power on anyway because it's going to take 40 something weeks, 40 something months to get switch gear. So I don't have products to install anyway.