LOL. No way was any of MFJ's manufacturing J.I.T. A few years back
somebody did a video tour of MFJ's manufacturing line ... where they
made actual MFJ gear ... and it was a horrible mess. Almost no
organization, parts everywhere, no linear product flow, most operations
performed manually. It was literally a classic garage shop, guaranteed
to be inefficient and produce woeful quality. I realized after I
watched that video that I would never buy a piece of MFJ gear again.
There are actually a few such videos on YouTube ... this is the most
recent from four years ago. See for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5IMnjqCiKU&ab_channel=w5kub
Anyone who has ever worked around modern manufacturing flows will know
what I mean.
Dave AB7E
On 4/26/2024 6:25 AM, Steven Katz wrote:
"I found his comments about covid odd. We sell on the internet and our sales were beyond
amazing during covid. Everyone was home getting free money (cough) and buying up everything!
It is too bad that they were not positions to take advantage of all the hams sitting at home."
I think COVID was great for retail businesses or even manufacturers if they had
inventory or at least all the components required to keep manufacturing lines
running full-time during the pandemic.
The issue, which I suspect was MFJ's issue, is if mfg relied on J.I.T. parts
shipments and timely deliveries, including well organized kanban orders and
shipments, they ran into snags with supply chain interruptions. A lot of
supply chain interruptions.
Bummer when you have everything needed to build a $1000 automatic tuner but are
missing one IC to complete the buiid, and nobody has any, nobody is shipping
any and in some cases, nobody is even making any.
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