Bob,
I agree, China can make some pretty high quality products when that is what
is specified. They are also still learning about quality control. Many
factories are just about how cheap can they make the item. As the RMB
strengthens and low cost manufacturing moves to cheaper places like vietnam
I suspect China will do what Korea did and start improving quality.
Toyota already figured this out and has aggressively moved to reduce the
manufacturing cost of their drive trains. Watch out American car
manufacturers unless they learn how to make a quality product at a
competitive price.
Steve
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Bob Gardner <rdgard at cox.net> wrote:
> "So what does that say about the crap from china?
> USA beats the hell out of ANYTHING from china."
>
> I only sort of agree with you. HF carries mostly very cheap stuff, mostly
> from China. Most of it works great, one or two times and if you want
> something that will service you well for a life time, spend the right
> amount
> and buy quality stuff. OTOH, some of my tools I only use once or twice a
> year.
>
> IMHO, the reason the China stuff is crap is not that China can't make
> quality stuff, it is because the American companies that go to China with
> the specifications that they want in a tool to buy insist on making them to
> a "very low Price Point" so they can sell them here and make a profit.
> Here
> or there, pot metal is less expensive than carbon steel.
>
> I only have been to Hong Kong, but there, everything worked great, the
> quality of the goods I shopped for was great and not what I would call
> cheap. Given, I didn't shop any tools but the "quality of life" I saw in
> the hotels, the public transport, the clean city streets, everything I came
> in contact with was better than the same thing in New York, for example.
>
> Check out the slide show someone sent me to see that the Chinese can indeed
> do "state of the art" work. The bridges are beautiful. (OOPS, I don't
> know
> if I can send an attachment. Maybe someone else knows how to find a link
> to
> this.)
>
> Just my two yen worth!
>
> Cheers,
>
> bob
>
> Robert D. Gardner
>
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