Very Disappointed with New Keystone Alpine
We just purchased a 2018 Alpine 3400RS. We custom ordered it as we wanted full body paint, a generator, and dual-pane windows. I took delivery two weeks ago. This is my fifth RV so I am no stranger...
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laknox wrote:
The industry as a whole could start by:
1) Adopting an industry-wide building code.
2) Geting off the pay-per-piece wages that allow the crews to build the day's quota as fast as they can, then leave. Meaning, if they can build the X units for the day's quota in 5 hours, they go home. If the mfr wants X units, make the crews build them in a normal 8 hour shift.
As an owner of a manufacturing firm, I don’t have a problem with work being done fast, I just have a problem of bad work being done fast.
This is a quality accountability problem, not a speed problem.
However, with a workforce supply issue in the Elkhart area, it is difficult to deploy a culture of quality, as the workers themselves are key ingredients in that strategy.
It’s not impossible to increase output with a fixed labor input while simultaneously holding a high quality standard, but it is definitely difficult to do, which is why there is a quality issue across most of the industry right now.
To achieve high efficiency with quality, first you need quality workers.
