On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:35:51 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
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Which leads me to the question, how long would it take to rig such
an enterprise onto transportation to another location, one which might
be considered more business friendly?
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While governmental/community attitude may be a part of the
problem, from what I can tell from the auction listings, a much
larger problem is the prevalence of obsolete/obsolescent
machinery which are most likely not worth the money to move for a
high volume commercial operation. Even if the equipment is in
pristine condition, if it is a generation (or more) old, quite
likely it is not worth moving to a new commercial location.

When a shop is filled with obsolete and/or "clapped out"
equipment, the odds are very high that the front office is
similarly "equipped," e.g. no CRM [customer relations management
software], no production scheduling software, no P/M software, no
A/R-A/P (accounts payable-accounts receivable software), no job
costing/tracking software, no or minimal CNC/cad software,
minimal tool crib controls, slow or no internet connections, no
web page, etc.

It may be possible to cherry pick from several shops and assemble
a decent commercial operation, but there is a reason that the
bankrupt shops went bankrupt.


Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).