https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-inno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
Mismanagement, greed, protectionism... The irony of Toyotas whole process coming from an American and not being embraced by Americans is amusing (Demming).
The natural evolution of business is to grow large, and bloated and then fall apart, or decline. The author's article laments manufacturing and looks at services, but fails to look critically at IBM following that same arc.
It's a good read and some interesting data but nothing new to any one in the know.
What should be interesting is the fact that manufacturing is coming back to the US in the small. You can boot strap a manufacturing business in your garage, and the machine(s) to do it (CNC) are cheaper than the giant pickup you would have in there anyway.