In Reply to: RE: I Went to Phil at Cimmaron Technology... posted by rick_m on January 26, 2012 at 19:06:44:
"So why do you guys buy gear designed by others when you're so damn smart that you know how to do it better? Just curious."
How do you know that they aren't just putting back parts equivalent to what the original designers selected before "value engineering" was applied by non-engineers in the purchasing department? I know for a fact that this used to go on in audio equipment in the 60's or 70's as an associate of mine's father was in charge of purchasing at a large kit manufacturer. (Of course when the resulting product worked poorly the company's ass was covered, because they could blame the problem on the customer who made an assembly mistake.) Similar things went on in the computer industry where I worked and it was necessary to develop a relationship of two-way trust between engineering and manufacturing to assure both happy customers and happy stockholders.
Tony Lauck
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