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Not sure if you guys seen it but Walmart has been target with many lawsuits....selling meat with ammonia, labor laws infringement, faulty items etc etc...We live in a capitalistic for profit society, where sell more at lower price is the mantra...what a bout quality...and how to balance that?
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Quality cost money. Some companies want to keep that money.
I was working as an "engineer" (that is, because if there was any actual engineering issues they were handled by the customer service guy and parts ordering guy who had high school educations..."oh maybe if we do it like this and not like that!!").
I came in being told by the manufacturing manager that they had tons of problems, to the point that customers were getting hurt by their products. In one particular case, the son of the companies owner was talking to me about how we should design something. He was arbitrarily going about what should be done, guessing the amount of spot welds to support the load. I told him "we can run a simulation to find out the minimum amount of load before failure, as well as a fatigue analysis to find out how many cycles it could survive". He just said "but we'll have to pay you for those hours".
I was shocked. Wide eye shocked. I started planning my way out ASAP. I do not want my name associated with shoddy products.
Not sure if you guys seen it but Walmart has been target with many lawsuits....selling meat with ammonia, labor laws infringement, faulty items etc etc...We live in a capitalistic for profit society, where sell more at lower price is the mantra...what a bout quality...and how to balance that?
Simple. You calculate profits made against possible losses from returns and litigations. If you sell 100,000,000 dollars of product and pay out 5 million in losses you still make 95 million.
Car companies do this all the time. Say they have a recall. They calculate losses from the voluntary recall vs costs of not recalling.
Toyota and Honda mass produce the highest quality cars in the world. They are better at it than other manufacturers. They've mastered the production process. There is no conflict between mass production and high quality. It just takes people who know what they're doing.
Toyota may have created Six Sigma but they haven't been following it lately. They actually identified that quality has been lacking starting in 2003. "Zero mistakes" eventually became "few mistakes tolerated" as complacency set in.
toyota and nissan were building trouble free cars that lasted forever . those early maxima's were insane.
but then jd powers called it correct.
they said if they keep up this pace of flawless cars they will hurt themselves. less service ,fewer parts sold , and fewer cars needed would destroy them eventually
little by little we saw them go from great to just very good after that point .
Toyota and Honda mass produce the highest quality cars in the world. They are better at it than other manufacturers. They've mastered the production process. There is no conflict between mass production and high quality. It just takes people who know what they're doing.
Wrong. Latest quality surveys to find which cars have the lease problems, they both are quite a ways down the list of quality cars. Toyota just barely beats the average of all cars and just by hair, and Honda is quite a bit below that.
they cut back quality by design many years ago . the Japanese cars were so reliable and trouble free they were going to put themselves out of business .
i never used to see the inside of a dealership because none of my cars had problems for years on end .
jd powers warned them about making cars last so long and predicted we would see a shift to more " normal " longevity of parts and systems . jd powers was correct and we did .
Wrong. Latest quality surveys to find which cars have the lease problems, they both are quite a ways down the list of quality cars. Toyota just barely beats the average of all cars and just by hair, and Honda is quite a bit below that.
Next time I'm looking for a car that rates well over 90 days, I'll be sure to check out those data. Usually though, I'm more focused on finding a vehicle that will rate well over many thousands of days.
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