[Spridgets] Spridgets Digest, Vol 58, Issue 6

[Mark Haynes]

Point well taken- Especially the IP factor. Mea Culpa

Mark Haynes
It only goes one way- Pay It Forward

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:43 AM, John Innis <jdinnis at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is all true, BUT, there is another layer to this.  My company has
> also done business with sub-contractors in China, and I spent some time
> there getting the subs up to speed on the work they were doing for us.
> They work we got form them was of acceptable quality, but definitely the
> minimum possible quality that we could accept.  The subs that we worked
> with did not care if we rejected some product, it was cheaper for them to
> have rework than to do the work to a higher standard.  So we basically had
> to inspect everything we got from them.  The reject rate was definitely
> much higher than any of the other subcontractors we worked with.
>
> Then there is the IP issue.  Just about every design that the China-based
> sub worked on for us ended up getting ripped off and marketed by a
> different Chinese company shortly after out contract ended.  Both companies
> were owned by the government of China, so it seems likely they deliberately
> transferred our technology to one of our competitors.  Fortunately they did
> NOT try to sell our design in the US.  I am pretty sure we could have
> stopped them, but it would have been expensive.
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Mark Haynes via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> This article is right on point, My brother in-law has traveled to China
>> for business (very astute Engineer BTW) and stated that the Chinese will
>> make anything that you want to whatever price/quality point YOU define.
>> They CAN make very good tools, but its up to the outsourcing company to
>> tell them what level of quality they want.
>> Unfortunately most of the US firms are more concerned with cost to
>> produce rather than longevity and quality (Are you listening HF?).
>> JMHO,
>>
>> Mark Haynes
>> It only goes one way- Pay It Forward
>>
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