Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory
I don&#x27;t think this will make much of a difference aside from the branding advantage. The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn&#x27;t a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design. All the decisions made during that process and all the cost &#x2F; performance considerations made are what determine the ultimate outcome.<p>It&#x27;s common to blame Chinese manufacturing for cheap tools, but this gets the causation backwards. We wanted cheap tools and sending production overseas was the only way to get them. In fact because less is spent on labor, a better quality product can be had for the same price.<p>So bringing it back here without increasing the cost to the consumer means altering the design to make it cheaper to build, or banking on supply chain efficiencies to make it worthwhile.