Some Chinese products are truly crap and other product are quite good in
quality. All depends on the vendor and the product in question. Some
Chinese vendors will have multiple quality levels - good, better, best.
In general, I found that companies that have strict foreign partnerships
typically function at a higher level owing to contractual requirements
governing quality, reject rates, and component sourcing. On the other
hand, a lot of purely domestic-owned companies (many of which are state
owned) don't give a damn and would rather sell goods at the lowest
possible price - often at a loss - in order to keep their mills running
at high capacity utilization rates.
Depending on the industry, acceptance of Chinese product can range from
zero to 100% acceptance - often a function of the willingness of the
U.S. customer to take the product.
In one industry I do work in, there is -significant- reluctance to take
Chinese product owing to perceived quality concerns and a past track
record where Chinese product has been known to have failed or has not
been certified to meet specifications. In one example, a Chinese metals
company was caught falsifying the mill test reports of its metals -
which could have led to catastrophic failures had the product in
question been installed. In fact, the U.S.-based standards organization
for this product sector issued a warning notice to all of its industry
members stating that there were instances where certification reports
were known to have been falsified and that significant risk was being
carried in buying Chinese product.
73 Rich NN3W
On 3/19/2018 3:07 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 3/19/2018 11:52 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
Wait till we start getting stuff made in "Inja" as the Brits like to
call it.
It's not reasonable to paint all products from any country as
uniformly good or bad. Last I heard, Apple products are made in China.
Anan started out life in India, and their SDR transceivers are pretty
highly regarded. And according to Consumer Reports at the time, there
was a decade or so ('60s-70s) when a lot of what came out of
Detroit/Flint didn't hold up very well.
73, Jim K9YC
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