Momentum 399TH

momentum rv wrote:

Carrera man wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

Carrera man wrote:
Been looking at all brands for a year. I mean really looking, crawling in and out of areas that most never look at. The Momentum has one of the best finish's. Not perfect but one of the best. Now add their truly great customer service and we'll be going with a 397th when we go full time in the next couple of months. The second bath has a Fantastic Fan in it. As for people running around during assembly I'm fine with it. When I had my contracting that's pretty much how you make money lol. Trailers are not cars. There's no moving assembly line. For the most part their still hand made. As was explained to me by a factory rep a few weeks ago, when a trailer is brought to their inspection facility and something is wrong, the crew or person responsible is brought there to correct it. You screw it up, you fix it. Causes a lot less screw ups in the future!

Speed and "chaotic does NOT equal "Quality, I don't care the brand....They didn't "BID" on a job like a contractor does..As an Engineer who has been in manufacturing for 41 years, Safety is first for the worker/company, then Quality...That equals Lean Training and 5S training...you save money when you don't have to repeat a process, and don't produce scrap.

The one that was supposed to make it right the first time, may not be able to fix his/her mistake...it happens...

The GD is a beautiful product,,,I'm just saying, clutter and chaos is a negative in manufacturing..I've crawled around, in and out of pop-ups, TT's and 5er's for 35 years or more, looking at things most others don't either, and it's been rare that I didn't find something messed up it ..may be OK with an RV,, but ZERO DEFECTS, and QUALITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE" is the key when manufacturing product that could be the difference in life and death... all manufacturing plant's should build their product with that attitude, then it would be extremely rare to read about a "badly manufactured product....something the consumer is paying their hard earned money for.

Sorry to have gotten off topic, I'm speaking to more about manufacturing process and company's that don't have good manufacturing processes, and we the consumer end up paying twice or more for the end product.

GD is a very good product, I teetered for months and months on whether to buy one, but ended up going more with location and price, so no knock on GD..but if I were a Supervisor there, I would want to promote a flow process so that when a prospective customer takes a tour thru the plant, they would be more impressed when leaving, and not leave doubting the manufacturing process ...guess I've lived it too long...I'm retiring in July at age 66:B

Didn't see that the OP said chaotic. Just was turned off by speed and a messy shop floor. I didn't grow up yesterday and I've been to many fabrications shops and when their going gun hoe sometimes a messy floor will happen. Most of the time they have someone to clean it up latter. It could have been that the person or crew for clean up didn't get to that station yet. I find in difficult to believe that they would allow factory tours in a "chaotic" factory so I'll take this entire posting with a grain of salt.

X2 peoples perception of what is happening will vary

ONLY IF they don't understand the manufacturing processes. ONLY will their perception vary if they don't know what they're looking at. Both one and the same..You only have to have one or two that had a bad tour before it hits a thread like this

To me, If a prospective customer is given a tour and the prospective customer walks away with doubt in their mind about purchasing the product being manufactured..Somewhere the manufacturing process, or leaders of the manufacturing process flow have failed...It's really basic common sense., and I really do understand and know manufacturing in companies that have excelled and grown in business, globally...or has just been a success for years, for decades...they lasted versus their competition.