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> they own their factories in China This isn’t as protective as one would imagine. Unscrupulous floor managers will still swap materials, run the crap and sell the good stuff.
Wow. How would floor managers benefit from that kind of swap?
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> they own their factories in China This isn’t as protective as one would imagine. Unscrupulous floor managers will still swap materials, run the crap and sell the good stuff.
Wow. How would floor managers benefit from that kind of swap?
This reads like AI-produced ad text.
The human author of the text and this well-known blog is Stuart Deutsch, https://twitter.com/toolguyd Toolguyd has an active community (e.g. 100+ comments on this post) with real-world experience, challenging claims made by the blog.
I find him to be pretty reliable overall, and I believe he’s drawn ire from some manufacturers due to his honesty.
He also has a PhD (in materials science IIRC), FWIW.
This reads like AI-produced ad text.
The human author of the text and this well-known blog is Stuart Deutsch, https://twitter.com/toolguyd Toolguyd has an active community (e.g. 100+ comments on this post) with real-world experience, challenging claims made by the blog.
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> they own their factories in China This isn’t as protective as one would imagine. Unscrupulous floor managers will still swap materials, run the crap and sell the good stuff.
Wow. How would floor managers benefit from that kind of swap?
I don't think this will make much of a difference aside from the branding advantage. The quality of a mass-produced product like a consumer hand tool isn't a function of the country in which it is made but rather of its design. All the decisions made during that process and all the cost / performance considerations made are what determine the ultimate outcome. It's common to blame Chinese manufacturing for cheap tool…
There's a lot more to production quality than just product design. Quality of materials, manufacturing tolerances, heat treatment, surface cleanliness, quality control procedures, tooling wear, order of operations, assembly jig design, and so on. Some of those may be affected by the country in which it's made, and some may not. While you may say those are "design" in that the designer specifies the material they want, whether their product really gets made the way they envision is not always up to them.
And even when it comes to just design, I'll say one thing: I have a lot more confidence in the designs produced by designers whose desks are within walking distance of the production line.
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Wouldn't the lower spec ones fail QA checks on factory floor?
Not if the floor manager controls the factory floor QA checks...