Is German Precision Manufacturing Over?

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2 ай бұрын

Germany's manufacturing industry is not doing well. China has taken a big chunk of the advanced machinery and automotive market, and with massive shortages of qualified workers and failure to adapt to new market opportunities, are we seeing the decline of "German Made"?
Includes a video clip by @WalkaboutRojo inside a Chinese factory.

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@Somebody_i_used_2_know 2 ай бұрын

TBH closing down nuclear plants was the most stupid thing Germany could do

@highqualityorangejuice420 2 ай бұрын

Nah

@baronharald6705 2 ай бұрын

Germany here, the closing of the nuclear plants involved a lot of populism, but infact it did not really matter and also was planned for years. I personally like nuclear energy but this did not really affect our current crisis. I think the real reasons are besides the rising energy prices mainly that for years the Government under Angela Merkel was making Infrastructure cuts. This combined with our goal of dont taking anymore (government) debts are far more important reasons

@Somebody_i_used_2_know 2 ай бұрын

@@baronharald6705 IDK I think Gernan Infrastructure is already at max level . If You are talking about the distribution system and electric grids well then idk anything about that

@JmKrokY 2 ай бұрын

Yeah

@paulomartins1008 2 ай бұрын

Criminally accurate comment. Absolute shortsightedness to eliminate the best, safest and cleanest way to produce energy at scale.

@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko 2 ай бұрын

Self inflicted damage

@ScottyDog345 2 ай бұрын

Wake up

@JmKrokY 2 ай бұрын

🗿

@KimTiger777 2 ай бұрын

Closing down nuclear power plants wasn't a good move, now this kind of leadership are biting back badly. What was Merkel thinking?

@afjo972 2 ай бұрын

You don’t get it. They have a puppet government that acts against their own people. That’s part of their agenda. So congratulation, they reached their goal

@jarretta2656 2 ай бұрын

Well, and America destroyed Nordstream… there’s that.

@lykou1821 2 ай бұрын

Germany also succeeded because their engineering, quality had high standards, they had a culture of excellence and allowed industry to flourish. Don’t boil that down to cheap Russian gas. If all it took was cheap Russian gas then Russia would build all the cars and factories on the planet. Of course German cars now are losing to global competitors because they have abandoned their past attitude towards quality.

@JmKrokY 2 ай бұрын

True

@abdulhadimalik3312 2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@ArpanMukhopadhyay93 2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@noticedruid4985 2 ай бұрын

I don't think that's particularly accurate Germany still maintains a high quality standard. Their problem is multifaceted, one is that like in the video it is true that Germany heavily relied on cheap oil imports to power their industrial base. But it's not the sole issue they face. Next is their ageing demographics that are slowly impacting not only their key industries but their society and country as a whole. Next is a very important issue with their cost effectiveness ratio, they can make high quality goods but that comes at a pretty high price. Think of it like this, would rather have a very tasty burger for a $100 dollars or have a pretty good burger while not nearly as tasty as the $100 dollar burger but still pretty good for like $10 bucks. They are facing this kind of issue right now, there many alternatives who are steadily increasing their quality at cheaper prices due to their inherent cost advantages some fair others not fairly. Although I disagree with the video about it's talk about China, because other notoriety for being very cheap low quality knockoff garbage. But they still face a challenge to Germany not really on quality but more on quantity and price. Plus on top of that increased competition from other countries as well. From Poland to Mexico ect.. this is not only an issue faced by Germany but most Western nations a large part of this is due to inflation which is a slow acting poison that slowly kills their cost effectiveness. So while it's not simply cheap Russian gas, nor China or as you said they are forgetting quality it's a combination of factors that are leading to this. Its not just one major issue it's multiple issues.

@FalkonNightsdale 2 ай бұрын

@@noticedruid4985While you are generally correct, your allegory should be more like: Germany was making burgers for $10 and because they were great, they were selling them for $100, ppl happily paying for them. But over time, those burgers are more and more sloppy costs have risen to $40 and that Chinese sweatshop over the lake has burgers that used to be shamed for how poorly they were made - but now they are only slightly worse - and they are able to make them for $30 and are willing to sell for $50…

@user-lo4er8wy9l 2 ай бұрын

Drive a German car and you will see they prioritize precision over longevity. Once those tolerances get a bit sloppy, good night. Japan was very good at longevity, not so much anymore. China has ridden the coat tails of all the other advancing nations and undercut on price.

@JMB_focus 2 ай бұрын

Japanese cars are always known for its extreme reliability, longevity and efficiency and rational design cars that makes it boring.

@noticedruid4985 2 ай бұрын

I'd argue that truly American made cars have great longevity and quality. Now when I say truly American made, I literally mean that not American cars made in China or in Mexico or anywhere else but truly built in America.

@dwang552 Ай бұрын

German tend to over engineer. If a product can not last for years, why people buy it? Just like BMW, they are made with plastic parts

@safdarakbari Ай бұрын

G7 countries not realizing that their glory days of manufacturing are over. It is their own corporations who have contributed to this fall by moving their manufacturing to China, initially to maximize shareholder return. It all happened at such a massive pace that to reverse this trend seems almost impossible now.

@jakejohnson1378 2 ай бұрын

Germany and the EU have decided that they would rather ruin their own countries over Twitter politics rather than letting businesses and industries thrive through lower onerous hurdles and taxes.

@Cool2023FtwNoice 2 ай бұрын

Agree 😅😓😡

@toysoldier6093 2 ай бұрын

It's not enough for Chinese manufacturing to improve in quality--it must also overcome its existing reputation as the king of cheap, low-quality products. And that will probably take a decade at the very least.

@JMB_focus 2 ай бұрын

There ev cars are not low quality their more better than any county in the world it is a result of decade long planning and investing on research and development on ev battery so and it's affordable that's why china dominates the world in ev.

@toysoldier6093 2 ай бұрын

@@JMB_focus that's all well and good, but EVs are just one product category among many. Even if I take your assertion of Chinese EV dominance at face value, it does substantially change thd prevailing notion that "Made in China" does not inspire consumer confidence in the same way that "Made in Germany" does.

@noticedruid4985 2 ай бұрын

@@JMB_focusthat's absolutely BS, Chinese made EVs are notorious for spontaneously combusting primarily due to their low quality process on their batteries that makes the lithium inside their batteries pretty vulnerable to interacting with the air and water that causes them to spontaneously combust. The best quality EVs on the market ryt now wether you like them or not is Tesla.

@rediebearexabior8585 2 ай бұрын

@@noticedruid4985what battery Tesla use?😂

@Cheesecake99YearsAgo 2 ай бұрын

@@noticedruid4985 Tesla uses BYD batteries lol

@crushingexistentialism 2 ай бұрын

Turns out when German manufacturing isn't done by Germans anymore but Algerians instead...

@marcoac-sx6lq 2 ай бұрын

This not only is racist, but also not true

@Chicken_cocknballsoup7376 2 ай бұрын

@@marcoac-sx6lqsaying algerians work in german factories is racist somehow now?

@marcoac-sx6lq 2 ай бұрын

@Chicken_cocknballsoup7376 yes because I doubt this is the cause of the loss of quality of German manufacturing.

@valhalla9688 2 ай бұрын

@@marcoac-sx6lqthe Germans are superior.

@Chicken_cocknballsoup7376 2 ай бұрын

@@marcoac-sx6lq yes, main reason why german manufacturing declined was because of politics and greed but assuming everything to be constant, making algerians and Germans do the same task will give you drastic differences. Culture plays a big part in efficiency and results.

@Sueni 2 ай бұрын

Forget about electric vehicle. It's the biggest flop of our times. Way worse for the environment than fuel powered cars like the economic ones from Japanaes makers

@shnitzilhazel9957 2 ай бұрын

If German engineering is so good, why is my Jetta so hard to maintain?😂

@chrislloyd2496 2 ай бұрын

Because it was made in Mexico

@dwargonedragon794 2 ай бұрын

Because it focuses more on precision and smooth driving. Japanese cars are usually more reliable and easier to maintain. Heck, here in our pothole-ridden city German cars won't last without constantly replacing parts like the axle.

@shnitzilhazel9957 2 ай бұрын

@@dwargonedragon794 your overthinking it, it's just a badly made car.

@manjeetgill1 2 ай бұрын

"precision engineering" is a euphemism for something thst goes wrong a lot and needs very expensive parts and maintenance? If hou want to drive into the desert take a german car, if you want to drive back then take a japanese one.....

@ferrumignis 2 ай бұрын

China is also the leading manufacturer of electric vehicle fires...

@anjelkanja8032 2 ай бұрын

If there the largest manufacturer of ev's then that would go without saying

@david31162 2 ай бұрын

@@anjelkanja8032 Yes but as a percentage their cars burn best. Look it up!

@jablue4329 2 ай бұрын

There would have to be something really wrong for that not to be the case. You probably meant to imply that they have a disproportionately large amount of fires but failed at that.

@ferrumignis 2 ай бұрын

@@anjelkanja8032 The largest manufacturer of sub-standard EVs.

@ferrumignis 2 ай бұрын

@@jablue4329 I mean exactly what I said. They manufacture electric vehicle fires through low quality parts and terrible build quality.

@Oi.... 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, you put sanctions on Russia to hurt Russia & it backfired spectacularly. & the U.S. removed the way to pay for Russian gas/Oil, so no cheap Gas/Oil.

@hectorheath9742 2 ай бұрын

Making them is one thing, selling them is another

@j.dunlop8295 2 ай бұрын

Demographics, not having children for thirty years, 3.4 million Russian speakers, only Canada has more foreigners as a major portion of their population? Berlin 2/3 of a million emigrants! What's their future?

@socket_error1000 Ай бұрын

China's engineering rise in the last decade is actually the fault of Germany allowing foreign investment to gain control of its corporate institutions. China actually is invested heavily in several major german manufacturers like Daimler AG, whos largest shareholder is BIAC, a China owned investment group. This is the reason much of the manufacturing of parts for Mercedes and vehicles have moved to China. It is being directed that way by the influence of the largest shareholder on the board of directors. Other manufacturers have had to move parts of their production to China as well to keep up. We may see this come to an end in the next few years as the technology ban on China is already hurting them and it will reduce their access to the newest high tech manufacturing equipment. Making it not only hard to get new equipment but also to replace the high tech components of the equipment they already have as it fails.

@pedasijeff 2 ай бұрын

Over engineered products

@jackbrown5184 2 ай бұрын

Small minded customers

@hazmanriess8949 Ай бұрын

Germany precision and manufacturing depend on electrical power energy. All tools, machines and robots need electric power to moving. Shortage of oil and gas making manufacturing industries in Germany crumbling.

@user-ub7wi2rb2s Ай бұрын

Nothing like Quality control❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

@eze__95 2 ай бұрын

Last time I checked.. those electric cars in China catches fire a lot

@bibiayube677 Ай бұрын

Did I hear you said china will replace Germany with high quality products, you completely lost your mind

@leloupdessteppes3228 2 ай бұрын

Buying a cheap car from China is probably the worst decision to take.

@JMB_focus 2 ай бұрын

Actually you just don't know of how amazing their ev cars is

@CreepyGuy995 2 ай бұрын

Where do you think your iPhone is made?

@minmaungmaung8129 2 ай бұрын

It's the buyers' choice; between cheap low quality cars and expensive high quality cars. The latter type should better aim to sell at the developed countries rather than 3rd world countries.

@bigsarge2085 2 ай бұрын

✌️

@tabithan2978 Ай бұрын

I believe Germany will engineer its way out of its problems. 💯. Is there another country as politically stable, economically sound, educated, hard working, smart, with critical mass of 80M?

@zhubotang927 2 ай бұрын

Now fighting a proxy war with your gas utility company while facing competitions from overseas isn’t a good idea. Germany, you are not UK. They have casino economy make believe financial “industries”. You make good cars. Don’t throw away your game for someone else geopolitical gains.

@kyuhotae6410 Ай бұрын

This should inform our understanding about the true underlying aim of the Russo-Ukraine conflict. The EU’s ambitions of becoming the United States of Europe needed to be dashed, hence the decision by the U.S. to bring the German economy to its knees by way of the 2014 Ukrainian coup instigated by Nuland and Blinken.

@spvideos380 Ай бұрын

Qualität gewinnt am Ende 🇩🇪

@azmalkhan01 2 ай бұрын

Western countries should think twice before interfering in the internal matters of other countries Germany interfere in Hong Kong this is Chinese respons

@CATech1138 2 ай бұрын

China is also a tired man....that is spending his retirement savings very foolishly

@mairajarather9615 2 ай бұрын

I have a byd in singapore before it i had etron... Believe me byd is way too good for its price... Similar to etron in almost every aspect...

@samsonneserab9282 Ай бұрын

Germany should stay from genocide.

@daydreamers710 2 ай бұрын

Everything today in the world is an outcome of German engineering... It is never over...

@theyMuhannad Ай бұрын

how fossil fuel prices are raising, I keep hearing this none sense, but when I look at data, I notice fossil fuels are actually much cheaper especially when factoring inflation?

@chazairinscaturputra9290 2 ай бұрын

It is very good news.

@ragingdragon360 2 ай бұрын

Screw German engineering

@ArchStandford 2 ай бұрын

In the quest to be a vasal state of the United snakes they shot themselves in the foot and are rapidly deindustrializing.. no more cheap Russian fuel lol

@DanielChan-bm3ye Ай бұрын

Being a lapdog of imperialist USA is fatal.

@MozamAli-lc8mh Ай бұрын

Gravy train has gone

@auzzieredneck1850 2 ай бұрын

I’d still buy German products over Chinese products any day. 👍🏼👊🏼

@egal1780 2 ай бұрын

Christian Lindner... That man is horrible. While Tax Cuts for the upper class is ok. But there's No Money for Infrastructure, social spending or Other social Security spending. What a hypocrate.

@ppainterco 2 ай бұрын

Germany is an old man. Their demographics are upside down and have more elderly than youth. They peaked at procreating about 1970 and have fallen in half since then.

@SathyaswamyS 2 ай бұрын

Better than make in India

@WalkaboutRojo 2 ай бұрын

Haha. This has brill from my video, Walkabout Rojo's "Chinese factories are Insane". ...please ask next time.

@EconomicsExplained 2 ай бұрын

Hi WalkaboutRojo, so sorry for this - we gave our editor for this short access to our storyblocks and we assumed they only used stock footage that was available on there.

@felixpope6073 2 ай бұрын

You don't know Germany

@TheAdamAdy 2 ай бұрын

Shut down nuclear to ramp coal back up again 🤣 oh germany...

@afjo972 2 ай бұрын

Clickbait at its finest

@jesterguinanao5929 Ай бұрын

The problem it's expensive to produce products on us Europe countries that's why they moved on China. The real problem foreign companies left the Chinese market then there patten leave on china land so what china gonna produce new good products because they what no problem to produce because they the market there problem only on man power for now but we know China if they want more babies they can make law of it

@pisablavatsky-cb3dd Ай бұрын

Downfall of nezi germany

@Mare0912 2 ай бұрын

China is on the brink of economical collapse. Germany, having somewhere big trouble as well, can still rely on high quality and good reputation. That's nothing you lose with your gas supplier.

@JMB_focus 2 ай бұрын

Actually your a bit brainwashed by western propaganda media, and no china is not gonna collapse its a myth

@Thekevinator18 Ай бұрын

Trump told them so

@Captain_Jack711 2 ай бұрын

German manufacturing is dead : (

@TankEnMate 2 ай бұрын

The Chinese EV industry is haemorrhageing at the moment; "it's a blood bath" -- BYD CEO. The only reason that the Chinese EV industry hasn't completely collapsed is because of state subsidies.