Where a product is made makes a big difference too. When you send things overseas you'll find things like the first 100 coming off the line perfect. Then they'll start to slack off on quality control until you notice. Then things will start to pick back up a bit and they'll start to slack off again. You have to stay on top of it or the quality will start to diminish. Quality doesn't happen by accident. You have to have people who take pride in their product to make it well.
One of the only ways that we can ensure that our products are always up to par with our standards we actually have a department that makes test equipment specifically for testing our products. These machines thoroughly test the product and have very tight standards which things must stand up to before we'll accept them. Once these systems are completed they are shipped overseas and all product must pass these tests before it is shipped to us. Depending on how much money and time you want to throw at making sure that the job is done right sometimes its just easier to keep your finger in the pie and do it locally. Granted you still have to do quality checks but they are much easier to do when you can actually physically see and touch the thing before it's shipped. On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 09:05 -0500, Bill Tippett wrote: > What matters most to me is > where the products are designed (i.e. the real value-added in today's > world). > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
