Creating Manufacturing Villages and incorporating necessary social change is an engineering exercise to me. I am far too old to expect great rewards, I can only hope the benefits result in a more comfortable society.
Keeping profits within the village is vital for the long-term life of a Manufacturing Village. Therefore, ownership of the village cannot trickle out of the village even through children inheriting a share and moving away. Nor are outside investors allowed.
If money is needed to build a village it must be done through a vehicle similar to a mortgage.
On the other hand, the nationwide central office, which supports the local villages with services, is where general investors should seek investment.
Manufacturing Villages, a very long-term project, should be great places to live, raise children and, of course, through retirement.
Manufacturing Villages (MV) must include:
- Attracting people from the urban centers, many of whom left these villages after high school
- Building infrastructure to support both the town and manufacturing. Building these necessities may take a few years while the village makes itself attractive
- Manufacturing needs rail and truck transportation
- High speed transportation enabling area health centers
- Education to teach manufacturing skills
- Employee housing can be a great attraction perk
- Remember, I'm thinking of these MV's being a great place for many, maybe hundreds of years and many generations.
- A legal path to keeping profits in the local areas as opposed to ownership and profits going to the urban centers and eventually killing the MV.
The accomplishments of Manufacturing Villages requires a group effort: Please understand I am only capable of thinking and formulating ideas. If any of you expect me to be a great leader or a great administrator you shouldn't.
Having built model airplanes for over 60 years, fixed cars for 4 years, among other things, and have an engineering degree, you'll find I have a pretty wide ranging ideas of manufacturing. In fact, I attend engineering shows to this day (actually last week, May 2025) and read many magazines you never heard about. Computers, robots, and NCR machines, not only important in cost-effective and quality, are really fun toys.
The latest computer business implementations no longer require a technical person, but rather someone that can recognize how human interaction makes projects run better.
Automation of both manufacturing processes and back end accounting is certainly necessary with both lack of people to hire in America, and competing with low cost labor in other countries.
if you are not making a profit you cannot help anyone. Manufacturing Villages makes sure all the components work well, create useful and well-made products, and people receive proper compensation so we may keep helping people for many, many years.
My main issue? Building a good competent team. If you want to be part of this project please send me a Comment form message. If you want to be on the newsletter mailing list let me know.
The size of MV project is international. Few small businesses would be better without being part of a MV. I talk to many small businesses and have yet to see isolated small business being an island.
The turbulence Donald Trump is creating provides an opportunity I couldn't find in previous years. The original work on MV was 10 years ago or so.
Talking about MV at the engineering show and the LUXE packaging show (Both in the last month, May 2025) received a very good reaction. So I am now forced to work on this project.
Lots of both achievement and money involved here.
Richard Pearlman
Chief Engineer