jmtandem wrote:
Using Internet hearsay, it only takes 5.02 minutes to slap an Airstream together. This is likely why they cost 5.02 times as much to buy. Where on earth do people come up with such exaggerated claims. The sad part is people actually be leave it.
The information about 400 hours of labor that goes into each Airstream comes from the factory, not some You Tube video. Believe what you want.
How do you know how many man-hours went into my Funfinder ?
The answer is...you don't know, unless you are one of the industrial engineers or managers at the factory. That "time" could well include the design time spent by folks sitting at a CAD station, it could include misc time by workers who shuttle the pieces and parts around the factory in support of production, as well as the actual time that workers spent building walls and cabinets, etc. They might even include the labor hours involved in building the frame, even if it was built off site by a vendor.
Yes, in my working years, I was involved in the management of a high production machine shop. I had at all times, an industrial engineer that reported to me, so I could get any and all numbers I might need for "a variety of purposes", we might say. There's all sorts of ways to deal with numbers in order to potentially get what you want, for instance, for next year's dept budget, or staffing needs, etc.
Don't read too much into what you see on youtube blurbs put out by manufacturers.
