Adventurer 89RB/ Lance 855 Comparison
I am in the market doing my home work for a new camper. I was really leaning towards the Lance 855. How ever based on cost I began looking at other brands. I was surprised at what appears to me to be...
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Nice. Manual labor CAN NEVER compete with CNC/robotic/computer-controlled fabrication (as Travelnutz noted: errors can't be compounded, and can't get easily through the production line flawed). Statistical printouts (feedback from the processes) give you minute-by-minute parameters, where a mis-adjusted process is immediately flagged as flawed.
Many years ago, I was involved with nuclear gauging systems, developed by a physicist at McGill University: gamma-backskatter (I had to be certified and accredited to carry nuclear materials on the road; I demo'ed them right on live production lines at medical web product manufacturers, jet fighter fuel tank manufacturers and other sheet extruded product and blown poly film lines). Waaaay back when, many manufactures could only guess at their extrusion/web/hull walls consistency, and seeing how variable the product was in real-time was a shock and a revelation (you can guess what second-by-second feedback from gauge to the process was doing to product consistency/quality, and not to mention COST SAVINGS).
My point is: in today's manufacturing milieu, anyone wanting to compete in the world must meet ISO standards, and provide statistical proof (ie. that their product coming off the line comes with a full printout summary of each roll of polyethylene sheeting, each plastic pipe, each roll medical gauze, etc,) and this isn't possible by mere guessing or by pure analog experience. The more the automated line is, the more confidence that the product will be consistently made, eliminating all the accumulated errors from human hands (humans aren't perfect, neither are automated process manufacturing lines, but errors are almost fool-proof because of feedback controls from an automated line).
Granted, truck campers must have some manual labor input, however, automating key critical components, like laminated shell components, can save the manufacturer (and, consumer) a potentially huge catastrophe (a recall; catastrophic warranty claims; untold headaches for consumer)...
Many years ago, I was involved with nuclear gauging systems, developed by a physicist at McGill University: gamma-backskatter (I had to be certified and accredited to carry nuclear materials on the road; I demo'ed them right on live production lines at medical web product manufacturers, jet fighter fuel tank manufacturers and other sheet extruded product and blown poly film lines). Waaaay back when, many manufactures could only guess at their extrusion/web/hull walls consistency, and seeing how variable the product was in real-time was a shock and a revelation (you can guess what second-by-second feedback from gauge to the process was doing to product consistency/quality, and not to mention COST SAVINGS).
My point is: in today's manufacturing milieu, anyone wanting to compete in the world must meet ISO standards, and provide statistical proof (ie. that their product coming off the line comes with a full printout summary of each roll of polyethylene sheeting, each plastic pipe, each roll medical gauze, etc,) and this isn't possible by mere guessing or by pure analog experience. The more the automated line is, the more confidence that the product will be consistently made, eliminating all the accumulated errors from human hands (humans aren't perfect, neither are automated process manufacturing lines, but errors are almost fool-proof because of feedback controls from an automated line).
Granted, truck campers must have some manual labor input, however, automating key critical components, like laminated shell components, can save the manufacturer (and, consumer) a potentially huge catastrophe (a recall; catastrophic warranty claims; untold headaches for consumer)...
