jshupe wrote:
Chinese factories build to specification. The reason you find so many poor quality items coming out of China is because consumers want items as inexpensively as possible, and companies are shipping production over there with the minimum specifications they can get away with. Some things made in China are of good quality, but you pay for it, just like you would pay more for an item of similar quality made here in the states.
There are a few exceptions, like ball point pens, where Chinese manufacturing wasn't able to reliably produce high quality tips until very recently. With something like an automobile, where production is fairly well defined and streamlined there already, with many imported parts (to China, from Japan, Germany, and others), this goes back to whatever tolerances and specifications are sent over by the companies placing the orders. Don't look at the manufacturing location and turn it away, but look at the company placing the orders from China, and the product itself on the lot. That'll tell you miles more than the origin sticker.
That's not entirely true... The problem is the Chinese always perform short cuts in their manufacturing processes no matter what the specifications are and they know no one is going to audit them to confirm compliance. And even when they're audited they try to cover up issues or show you the plant they want you to audit, but little do you know they have other sweat shop factories that are not on the tour. Even their raw materials like Stainless Steel and Titanium with certificates is junk.
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