2015-03-28 0:22 GMT+02:00 andy pugh <[email protected]>: > > CCL goes for Chinese CNC Lathe, or I've missed something? ) > > Cheap Chinese Lathe :-) >
Oh, I was close! That's a shame. I would have thought that they were actually in quite > a good position to compete in the world markeplace. (They had the > tooling, raw materials and energy are relatively cheap). > Actually USSR engineers produced a lot of good ideas, but it was very hard to implement those ideas to production. Due to many reasons: planned economy, no free enterprise, wage levelling and so on and on. The best technology was in a defense industry and space, everything else went so-so. Particularly, there was no good electronics. This is why most soviet CNC machines and robots were rather poor quality and unreliable. As for now, Chinese produce better and cheaper goods (even including shipping cost). I would feel bad if it was US / Europe sanctions aimed at > Putin/Ukraine that caused that. > Not at all. They went down just before that. I don't know the whole story (I'm in Ukraine, and Izhevsk is far in Russia), but I doubt they were any good after the USSR was over. The whole economic climat has been bad in Russia. Corruption and.theft (I know that because it was near the same in Ukraine). No efficient production possible under such conditions. The only reason for Russia's growth from 2000 to 2014 was overpriced gas and oil. -- Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
