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Immigrant Robots Taking American Jobs

October 26, 2017 By Dick Young

If you ask the typical American where all the manufacturing jobs have gone, you’re likely to get one of two answers. Either they’ve been shipped overseas to cheaper labor markets, or the jobs have been taken by robots. In a twist on this theme, the WSJ reports that American manufacturing companies looking to add robots to their workforce are frequently importing them from Japan and Germany. As Daniel Michaels writes, America is losing the battle to supply production robots and machinery.

Vickers Engineering Inc. embodies the potential of American manufacturing. The New Troy, Mich., machining company supplies precision parts to clients including Toyota Motor Corp. andVolkswagen AG , and exports to Mexico and Canada. Its staff has risen fivefold and average pay has doubled over the past decade, says Chief Executive Matt Tyler.

What’s helping to power Vickers’s made-in-America success? Advanced Japanese and German factory equipment. When Vickers first bought industrial robots in 2006, it chose between only European and Japanese models, says Mr. Tyler, and has been adding Japanese robots ever since. “We were not aware of any American-made option.”

America is losing the battle to supply the kind of cutting-edge production machinery that is powering the new automated factory floor, from digital machine tools to complex packaging systems and robotic arms.

Commerce Department data show the U.S. last year ran a trade deficit of $4.1 billion in advanced “flexible manufacturing” goods with Japan, the European Union and Switzerland, which lead the industry. That is double the 2003 deficit. It was down from $7 billion in 2001, but much of the decline came from foreign equipment suppliers expanding in the U.S., not from an American comeback.

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