Kawasaki Tools?

Doug Payne wrote in news:dnh9i5$dr9$1 @rumours.uwaterloo.ca:

Nothing except the 750cc H2, perhaps. :-)

Apropos of their tools, bear in mind that Kawasaki's main business is building very large machines (e.g. 300,000 ton oil tankers) and they've been doing it for a long time. I'd expect their tools to be serious industrial grade stuff.

John

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John McCoy
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On 12/13/2005 5:44 PM John McCoy mumbled something about the following:

Or maybe the Z900A, but that was a couple years later. I know my 80 KZ1300 was the fastest touring bike I ever want to get on (yes, I had the full vetter fairing, bags, and trunk).

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Odinn

Yep, but that wasn't "in it's day". When I bought my H1, the H2 didn't yet exist. I kicked myself for not waiting a couple more months.

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Doug Payne

There is an island in the western Pacific whose name I cannot recall, (Samoa, Saipan?) that while Asian for all intents and purposes - wages, quality, work ethic - is a US territory or protectorate or some such and therefor qualifies the product as "Made in USA". Discovered this in the early 90's when I called Delta to inquire as to why my new "American" jointer was using metric bolts.

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KaiS.

Saw a TLC or Discovery show about one of the Korean (IIRC) conglomerates that is so vertically integrated they build everything from the mining equipment to the ships that transport the finished product to market and everything in between, most of which is on the same massive waterfront complex.

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KaiS.

Daewoo was the largest Korean conglomerate until the Korean govt forced them to break up about 5 years ago. They sold their electronics division to Emerson, bankrupted their auto division, and split the rest into about 5 other companies. I didn't follow it too much after I left Daewoo (I was a software developer/admin for their Heavy Industries Americas division). From what I understood at that time, the Korean govt was trying to break up all the conglomerates, or at least break them into smaller parts. Kia and Hyundai are 2 divisions of the same Korean company, and that happened after all this, so I don't know what happened over there.

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Odinn

Ironic thing about that is that here in the US, the Havard Business School MBA model is counseling businesses to "focus on their core competencies" and divest themselves of everything else. Thus, many of us who worked for diversified companies found our divisions sold off to other companies who were concentrating on that particular business as a "core competency".

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Mark & Juanita

What sucks about that is that, from time to time, that one specialized field will be in low demand. Being diversified means far steadier income.

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CW

If anyone finds a 'core competency' among MBAs, be sure to let us know.

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Lobby Dosser

Yep. I'm sure that in about 5 to 10 years, if not sooner, the Harvard MBA model will be to counsel businesses to "diversify and invest in businesses that are counter-cyclical to the current core business" in order to maintain a steady revenue stream, or to provide a "flywheel" effect to maintain the core business during cyclical downturns. Then, in about 15 years, a bunch of us will be working for larger, diversified companies with multiple business areas, same as the way we started out. ... and hopefully that will carry me through to retirement and building furniture from my shop for a small clientele before the next "focus on core competencies" model gets evangelized again.

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Mark & Juanita

That's easy -- consulting for companies dispensing advice from the latest Harvard Business Review. After all, consultants are experts, so their advice carries much more weight than the folks in the trenches, who, after all might be biased. ;-)

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Mark & Juanita

Steve knight wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Did you ever build a plane out of that Mesquite I sent you?

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Michael Burton

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