Originally Posted by
Bob Dopolina
...You don't understand manufacturing....
Then again maybe some of us do.
Originally Posted by
Bob Dopolina
..Just because it is made by the same people in the same factory (they ARE NOT) doesn't mean they use the same materials and manufacture to the same standards. How hard is this to grasp?...
Not hard to grasp at all. The difference could lie in tasking a Chinese or Taiwanese or Korean EMPLOYEE of your company, a qualified engineer, with ensuring that quality standards are met versus the short sighted pure profit oriented dumping of manufacturing on a contractor who owns a shack with a lathe machine and making site visits for 'quality checks' in June. We've tried putting the squeeze on US auto suppliers for years remember?...they're thriving...NOT.
Originally Posted by
Bob Dopolina
...I will leave you with one fact; Chinese factories have an annual employee turnover above 50%...
Which is why Cervelo insists on hand building every carbon frame in Canada correct? On a more serious note, there are employee retention issues in every company. In the US you can't easily walk and find a job today as you can in the far east manufacturing space or Indian software industry for example. One cannot conclude from this that Americans are thrilled with their lot in the workplace.
Originally Posted by
Bob Dopolina
...Draw your own conclusions...
On cost and quality of overseas manufacture? Sure completed this exercise between 20-10yrs ago in Asia and S.America i.e. when the motivation provided is comparable, quality work whether manufacturing widgets or developing software, can be produced by any group of individuals (or larger company) regardless of geographical location, race, language, gender.