RV Show Reflections (Do RV Engineers RV?)
Went to the San Antonio RV show yesterday and we really enjoyed seeing all the new RVs. Was pleasently surprised at construction quality on most models, not a lot of shoddy construction issues were ob...
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LIKE2BUILD wrote:
In short, probably not.
1) The marketing team comes up with packages and features they think will sell the most RV's with the highest sales margins.
2) The designers draw up concepts that accommodate these desired packages.
3) Project managers estimate build costs and negotiations begin to ensure features, production costs, and sales price all match up to meet the margins
4) Process engineers and designers then work to draw up an assembly process that is as efficient as possible to keep costs down while packing all the features into the available space.
IF this all works well you get an RV with well placed features and options that make sense and are very useable.
If this doesn't work well? You get an RV that has a bunch of features that aren't necessarily sensible.
This is the process used on just about every project I've ever worked on. Hopefully when you're done, someone will buy your stuff. By the number of campers running around these days, they must be doing something right.
