Good point Graham.
Perhaps as members of a dying breed and also consumers we should take a careful look at product before we buy it. The place of manufacture may just affect our decision.
A few years ago I saw a four wheel drive vehicle which obviously belonged to a farmer. On the back it said "Support British Farming". The vehicle? A foreign make!
This may not be technical content, but without our home industries we will have nothing to talk about.
Regards
Eric Dawson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Naisbitt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:34 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Dwindling members
>
> > Did anyone notice that the membership on this forum is down to 780 members?
> > It used to be almost 1700 if my recollection serves me right. Did the last
> > network purge by Keach find that many non-participants? Is the business that
> > bad everywhere?
> >
> > Just an observation. Sorry about the NTC tone of this post. Please do not
> > generate dialog about how this forum is supposed be for technical purposes
> > only.
> >
> > Bill Kasprzak
> > Moog Inc. Manufacturing Engineering, Electronics
>
> Bill and the other 780 members....
>
> I attended the keynote address on Wednesday 2nd April at the IPC conference,
> given by the Chairman of NEMI.
>
> In this address, he advised that there are around >6million folks employed
> in the US electronics industry.
>
> During the past 12 months or so, with a drop of around 20% in revenues, some
> 600,000 folks lost their jobs.....to the Chinese.
>
> The NEMI roadmap shows a drop in revenues of similar proportions over the
> next 2 to 3 years as more and more go to China....that would suggest that
> another ~ 2,000,000 will lose their jobs - so the TechNet might dwindle to
> around 50 or so?
>
> I figure that you folks need IPC, as your trade association, to make efforts
> to protect your jobs.
>
> BTW and IMHO, it won't take China that long to acquire what they need, and
> then close the door to you.
>
> --
> Regards, Graham Naisbitt
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