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| As Auto Industry Roars Back, Worker Shortages Throw Up Roadblocks (3-minute listen) |
| 2020-09-15 |
| [NPR] Orbital Insight CEO Jimmy Crawford has, quite literally, a bird's-eye view of the U.S. auto industry Using satellite images as well as anonymous cellphone location data, Orbital Insight tracks a wide range of human behavior — including key economic indicators such as how many people report to work at auto plants. "We can just look at the number of cars in the parking lot," he said. This spring, when the industry entered an unprecedented shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, "there was just nobody there," Crawford said. "Just really skeleton crews." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 How many parts are in the supply chain before the factory would shut down? |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-09-15 15:44 |
| #1 "We can just look at the number of cars in the parking lot," he said. I would think a better indicator would be a diminishing onhand inventory. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-15 09:20 |