Fascinating. China has always lagged far behind the rest of the world in high precision machining, and is still a long way behind, they have to buy all of those from other countries. The reasons appear complex.
All of the US and european machine tools that go to china use hardware monitoring and tamperproofing to prevent reverse engineering or misuse. There was a time when US aerospace machine tools reported to the DOC and DOD.
I watched the video. It doesnt seem to say that China is behind in machine tooling—rather the opposite: prices are falling, capacity is increasing, new technology is rapidly adopted.
Okay? I said they’re behind in high precision machine tooling, not machine tooling in general. That was the point of the video.
Admittedly, I’m not sure what the significance of this is. To make the fastest missiles I’m sure you’d need the best machine tools, but maybe you don’t need the fastest missiles if you can make twice as many. Manufacturing automation is much harder if there’s random error in the positions of things, but whether we’re dealing with that amount of error, I’m not sure. I’d guess low grade machine tools also probably require high grade machine tools to make.
Fascinating. China has always lagged far behind the rest of the world in high precision machining, and is still a long way behind, they have to buy all of those from other countries. The reasons appear complex.
All of the US and european machine tools that go to china use hardware monitoring and tamperproofing to prevent reverse engineering or misuse. There was a time when US aerospace machine tools reported to the DOC and DOD.
I watched the video. It doesnt seem to say that China is behind in machine tooling—rather the opposite: prices are falling, capacity is increasing, new technology is rapidly adopted.
Okay? I said they’re behind in high precision machine tooling, not machine tooling in general. That was the point of the video.
Admittedly, I’m not sure what the significance of this is. To make the fastest missiles I’m sure you’d need the best machine tools, but maybe you don’t need the fastest missiles if you can make twice as many. Manufacturing automation is much harder if there’s random error in the positions of things, but whether we’re dealing with that amount of error, I’m not sure.
I’d guess low grade machine tools also probably require high grade machine tools to make.