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md0110 · 01-27-2006, 06:52 AM

Ward,

The particular automobile examples you cited are not issues of differing manufacturing standards, but are issues of differing design standards.

And we can be grateful differing desing standards exist - suppose the only design standard was that of Bentley or Rolls - all cars would be much more expensive and unobtainable by many.

A better example of the effect of manufacturing standards is that of the the comparison of engine reliabilty among the same type of GM auto engines - those made in US/Canada vs. those made in Mexico. Or the Firestone tires that failed on the Ford SUVs same Firestond design standards, but outsourced to a South American(?) plant that failed to construct them properly.

To a certain extent, we can be thankful that differing manufacturing standards exist as well. I don't want to pay for the fit & finish standards of a Benz for an F-150 pickup that I would regularly take 4-wheeling.

Since the days of the US-Canadian vs. Mexican GM motors, international "standards" (ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 9002 ISO etc.) have been introduced (and received with varying degres of enthusiasm), and thus there is perhaps the impression that manufacturing standards are uniform everywhere, but I agree with your larger point that, utlimately, standards vary widely.

md0110

01-27-2006, 06:52 AM	#10
md0110 HD- Nice but it's only TV Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 92	Ward, Weren't you a little hard on the beaver? Ward, The particular automobile examples you cited are not issues of differing manufacturing standards, but are issues of differing design standards. And we can be grateful differing desing standards exist - suppose the only design standard was that of Bentley or Rolls - all cars would be much more expensive and unobtainable by many. A better example of the effect of manufacturing standards is that of the the comparison of engine reliabilty among the same type of GM auto engines - those made in US/Canada vs. those made in Mexico. Or the Firestone tires that failed on the Ford SUVs same Firestond design standards, but outsourced to a South American(?) plant that failed to construct them properly. To a certain extent, we can be thankful that differing manufacturing standards exist as well. I don't want to pay for the fit & finish standards of a Benz for an F-150 pickup that I would regularly take 4-wheeling. Since the days of the US-Canadian vs. Mexican GM motors, international "standards" (ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 9002 ISO etc.) have been introduced (and received with varying degres of enthusiasm), and thus there is perhaps the impression that manufacturing standards are uniform everywhere, but I agree with your larger point that, utlimately, standards vary widely. md0110 __________________ High definition is nice, but read a book now and then, willya???