Jayco-noslide wrote:
Better quality might force present manufacturers to improve. Would they cost more? Maybe, but the cars didn't.
You have asked a question that demonstrated the source of most cost increases and minimal quality. Business school graduates. How to increase costs and reduce quality? Cost controls.
This conflict existed between business schools and William Edward Deming over 40 years ago. It goes directly to a simple question. What is the purpose of every company? Business school grads say profits. Product people (and Deming) say the product.
GM engineers developed a four cylinder engine that had as much horsepower as a V-8 ... in the early 1970s. Had GM let engineers design cars, then all GM products would have 4 cylinder engines. Last longer. Require less gas. Have as much or more horsepower. Make almost no noise. Cost less. Result in products that can be exported. Maintains or increased the American standard of living. GM cost controlled it.
Honda and Toyota started making those products 20 years later - in the early 1990s. GM still will not put that innovation in some products today. Because innovation increases costs - on a spread sheet. Innovation is the only source of decreased costs and increased quality. Same innovation increases costs on a business school grad's spread sheet.
If your RV manufacturer has inferior quality, then innovation is stifled by cost controls. Bosses comes from the finance department - not from where the work gets done.
Every major Japanese company cites Deming as a major reason for their success. Did you know about Deming? Or have concepts taught in the business schools kept you naive? Deming and business schools were arch enemies. Business schools teach profits and cost controls. Deming taught innovation that creates lower costs, higher quality, longer lasting products, neat new ideas, and expanding markets.
Therein lies the reason why an RV company has inferior products. As indicated by a top boss who does not come from where the work gets done.
