Re:Build CEO: robots attack a small slice of production cost, lean beats them
jaimalik · x · 2026-10-28
Re:Build CEO Miles Arnone argues manufacturers put too much faith in robotics for efficiency gains.
- Robots mainly eliminate direct labor, which is only a small slice of total production cost; high capex may shave just a few percentage points off total cost.
- He advocates Toyota-style lean production to remove wasteful, non-value-adding steps instead.
- He criticizes US manufacturing's techno-centric bias toward big step-change improvements over grinding out weekly fractional efficiency gains.
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