| Re: [GMCnet] Another trip screwed up by another China built [message #322694 is a reply to message #322669] |
Sat, 26 August 2017 17:02   |
fbhtxak
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Registered: April 2006
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John,
I fully endorse your observations.
"It's not what you EXpect that counts. It's what you INspect!" My experience
is that American companies who have manufacturing done in China and other
international locations must provide company employee technicians to
enforce the specifications for their products and especially the quality
control requirements. Those who do that can get products that are of the
same and sometimes better quality than those made in the USA. While I prefer
American-made products, and am willing to pay a premium for them, there are
some oil country tubulars that can no longer be sourced in the US. Under
those circumstances, we (Exxon Corporation) had to source them from wherever
they could be made. Engineers and technicians in my organizations wrote very
detailed technical specifications, selected a manufacturer and then we
deployed company technicians to the manufacturer's facility to enforce the
specs. Nothing was shipped that did not pass the technicians' quality
control inspection. We did not trust non-employee/contract technicians
residing at the manufacturing location to enforce our specs. We never had a
failure with foreign-made products.
Any US company that tries to lower product costs by outsourcing
manufacturing will likely have any manufacturing savings substantially
reduced by the requirements of tightly-written specs and rigid
enforcement/inspection by on-site company personnel. Foreign-made products
(with American names) that fail are usually as result of "willy-nilly"
outsourcing of manufacturing, loosely written specs (if any) and a failure
to observe "It's not what you EXpect that counts. It's what you Inspect"!!
Fred
Fred Hudspeth
1978 Royale (TZE 368V101335) - Tyler, TX
1982 Airstream Excella (motorhome) - Cooper Landing, Alaska
Message: 1
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 10:38:09 -0600
From: John Yurtinus
To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Another trip screwed up by another China built
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Not to pick nits, but I must. When your "heathen chinee" part fails, the
cause of that failure is not the nation of China, it's on the (usually
American) company whose name is on the box who specced out a sub-par
component. That component doesn't cost half as much because it's made in
China, it costs half as much because the importer has provided cheap specs
and figured it can pass the blame when the thing fails.
If you have a component failure, don't tell us it's a Chinese part, tell us
it's a Mr Gasket or a Duralast or a whomever's name is on the box. If you
don't hold the *importer* accountable for their own reputation, you won't
effect any change in quality.
--
77 Birchaven 23 w/ 455
Reno, NV
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