Re: [PSES] German Technical Reputation

2012-06-08 Thread Ed Price
and their cleaver marketing machine. No offence to anyone intended, just observations. T - Original Message - From: Ed Price Sent: 06/07/12 10:12 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] German Technical Reputation I was watching an interesting BBC documentary TV show

[PSES] German Technical Reputation

2012-06-07 Thread Ed Price
I was watching an interesting BBC documentary TV show the other night; it's focus was product quality and the publicly perceived image of quality goods. I had been aware that German consumer goods had at one time been held in poor repute in the British marketplace; recall the Irish song about

Re: [PSES] German Technical Reputation

2012-06-07 Thread John Woodgate
In message 009001cd448d$b4bb6570$1e323050$@cox.net, dated Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Ed Price edpr...@cox.net writes: The BBC explained that German industry (starting with AEG) began a corporate and industrial makeover around 1900, emphasizing a designed-in quality that stretched from the product

Re: [PSES] German Technical Reputation

2012-06-07 Thread Anthony Thomson
machine. No offence to anyone intended, just observations. T - Original Message - From: Ed Price Sent: 06/07/12 10:12 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] German Technical Reputation I was watching an interesting BBC documentary TV show the other night; it’s focus was product

Re: [PSES] German Technical Reputation

2012-06-07 Thread John Woodgate
In message 20120607102558.244...@gmx.com, dated Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Anthony Thomson ton...@europe.com writes: However, German quality and reliability is a false perception. ‘German’ consumer goods are generally made in the same Chinese factories using the same components as the rest of the