Thirty years ago, if you had told me that Bob Dylan would win the Nobel Prize for Literature or that the president of the United States would be able to influence corporate manufacturing decisions through an electronic medium called “Twitter,” I would not have believed you. But, to quote The Bard, “The times, they are a-changin’.”
In January, Ford Motor Co. announced that it had canceled plans to build a $1.6 billion factory in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and will instead invest $700 million in its Flat Rock (MI) Assembly Plant to build electric and autonomous vehicles. The move is expected to create approximately 700 new jobs at the plant, starting in 2018.