An Elinchrom surprise from PCB !!

poopinmymouth wrote in post #10161678
I thought one big selling point he pushes is the made in the USA aspect. What´s all this China stuff? I have nothing against China, or products from there, but it seems if a company pushes hard as a domestic product in their advertising, it should be made domestically. Why can't he find an American mold maker and metal worker?

I believe it's more a case of "assembled in USA". He is clearly using Chinese vendors and factories to have the parts manufactured and boards printed, etc.

Shipping probably works out well for him because with unassembled products he can get huge numbers of parts and components in a small part of a container, whereas the assembled and boxes strobes, for instance, would take up a lot more space and ultimately cost more for container space.

poopinmymouth wrote in post #10161678
I thought one big selling point he pushes is the made in the USA aspect. What´s all this China stuff? I have nothing against China, or products from there, but it seems if a company pushes hard as a domestic product in their advertising, it should be made domestically. Why can't he find an American mold maker and metal worker?

A lot of companies start off that way, but as they get bigger (or greedy, however you want to look at it) they start seeing how much more cheaper it is to have services outsourced elsewhere and since by then they already have a name cut out for themselves no one seems to make a big fuss about the switch.

i dont know if its just greed - I know of companies that had lower fail rates with their chinese-manufactured products than they did with their hand-made in america products .. possibly since the chinese factories were dealing with less worrying about monday morning blues, hang-overs, who is screwing who on the weekend, whats your golf handicap, how big is your truck, hey its friday lets slam through these last units and leave early etcetc


obviously there is a whole range of quality that can come out of any country - its up to each company to figure out what sort of quality control they want to introduce/maintain

Ash