On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:19:54 +0200 Roland Jollivet <roland.jolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > You re-coup money in the shavings.
This is the key to what's being said here. Let's say two manufacturers make the same fitting starting with the same size brass blank. 1. They both sell it for the same wholesale price to their clients. 2. Each has identical labor and overhead costs in each part. 3. The manufacturer who scoops out more of the interior of the part and converts it to chips (without increasing the machining time) will realize greater profit because they will recoup more of their stock cost from the sale of the chips. HOWEVER - The customer is being robbed because he is not getting all the material he is paying for! This is possible because there is no acceptance inspection by the receiver, because the dimensions that are undersized are uncontrolled by the part specification. Methods like these are the basis of the Chinese manufacturing economy. Here's a good explanation: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1776 Thanks, Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
