Making American Manufacturing Competitive.

This article examines and compares the manufacturing systems of commercial products in the U.S. and abroad. The U.S. has been placed at a competitive disadvantage to Japan as it pertains to the quality of its automobiles, consumer electronics, farm equipment, and machine tools. Discussed are Japanese versus American automakers. Japan's economic advantages are that they can afford to pay their workers less money and the workers are able to produce automobiles in a faster amount of time. The U.S. cars are priced higher and are of poorer quality.