Manar Hussain wrote:
Interesting insight, with India aspect trailing the blog article:
http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2007/01/09/japanese-repair-culture-and-distributed-manufacture/
Repair cultures usually take too much time to propagate knowledge and
reach scale. The Ludhiana car spares industry developed big time when
the ambassador was pretty much an unchanged design for about 30 years.
It's the same with Maruti 800 and whatever has been around for a while.
OTOH, it's pretty hard to find locally made spares for the latest cars.
It seems fair then to assume that in markets where change is frequent a
local repair economy will not be able to compete effectively.
Thankfully low equilibrium ends of even the hi-tech economy don't change
that much, hence the mobile phone repair culture.
It's hard to extend this to a global market where change is a dominant
feature of the landscape.
Cheeni
