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[CT8]

Originally Posted By: jcwit
I agree with the above 2 posts, but I'm posting about the hundreds here who are in manufacturing and furnitute production.

A rancher here and there and some grade school millionaires versus what I'm posting about are 2 completely different animals!
Life isn't fair or equal and shouldn't be.

 

[DoubleWasp]

I used to be the guy who was charged with cutting the fat out of a major corporation.

I made the common sense deduction that somewhere there was a person higher up the food chain that would be one day looking to cut me out of the equation and decided to go back into the repair industry.

They can automate a lot of things, but they haven't figured out a way to automate repairs.

It takes human intuition to fix a busted machine.

 

[02SE]

Originally Posted By: DoubleWasp

They can automate a lot of things, but they haven't figured out a way to automate repairs.

It takes human intuition to fix a busted machine.


You would think so.

A little story:

One of the guys I worked with in racing, is now a salesman at a BMW Dealer. According to him NONE of the Tech's in the service department is capable of actually fixing anything. Instead, they are at best, parts-changers that just replace assemblies until the problem goes away. Ok I guess if your car is under warranty. Not so great if you're a paying customer paying for those clowns incompetence.

I was stunned at this revelation, and was skeptical of it's accuracy. But seeing as we are both former consumer car Mechanics, he swore it was true. Apparently any Tech's that actually had any ability, have left to start their own repair shops.

 

[Mr Nice]

Originally Posted By: DoubleWasp
I used to be the guy who was charged with cutting the fat out of a major corporation.

I made the common sense deduction that somewhere there was a person higher up the food chain that would be one day looking to cut me out of the equation and decided to go back into the repair industry.

They can automate a lot of things, but they haven't figured out a way to automate repairs.

It takes human intuition to fix a busted machine.


What do you work on / repair ?

 

[Mr Nice]

Originally Posted By: 02SE
Originally Posted By: DoubleWasp

They can automate a lot of things, but they haven't figured out a way to automate repairs.

It takes human intuition to fix a busted machine.


You would think so.

A little story:

One of the guys I worked with in racing, is now a salesman at a BMW Dealer. According to him NONE of the Tech's in the service department is capable of actually fixing anything. Instead, they are at best, parts-changers that just replace assemblies until the problem goes away. Ok I guess if your car is under warranty. Not so great if you're a paying customer paying for those clowns incompetence.

I was stunned at this revelation, and was skeptical of it's accuracy. But seeing as we are both former consumer car Mechanics, he swore it was true. Apparently any Tech's that actually had any ability, have left to start their own repair shops.


Yep, thats why 'ASE master technician' don't mean [censored] if all they do is replace parts. You can teach a chimpanzee to do that.

 

[DoubleWasp]

Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
Originally Posted By: DoubleWasp
I used to be the guy who was charged with cutting the fat out of a major corporation.

I made the common sense deduction that somewhere there was a person higher up the food chain that would be one day looking to cut me out of the equation and decided to go back into the repair industry.

They can automate a lot of things, but they haven't figured out a way to automate repairs.

It takes human intuition to fix a busted machine.


What do you work on / repair ?


My company does boats and commercial vehicles.

Parts changers don't last a day in my business. Right now I have 5 problem-child trucks, and 3 problem-child boats sent to me by other repair shops and dealerships, as well as my own regular business.

Most new boats appear like they could have plausibly been constructed out of a kit in someone's garage, and the mechanicals are made by companies that seem obsessed with creating endemic problems from moment one.

I've been sent brand new boats 3-6 at a time that needed gremlins shook out of them, and basically to be completed, as the factory didn't do a good job at that.

Modern computer controlled engines are hilarious. 60% of my business is "The engine feels like it has its power cut out of it and I don't know why!".

The 250+HP Yamaha outboard motors and Isuzu NPR trucks being a major offender.

A boat costing $1 million+ doesn't seem to have much of an effect on quality. They're a bunch of low-production hulls stuffed with a bunch of parts by companies that don't speak to eachother.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted By: jcwit
Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
Originally Posted By: jcwit
Amazing that most all of the RV's are mostly manufactured my Amish with an 8th grade education, this even includes the high end motorhomes, and the custom mde models.


And until you get to 7-figure bus conversions, the quality is something that would have had workers in the Soviet Union hanging their heads in shame. The first six months of use is usually spent fixing the problems.


Just what do you base that statement on? I live in the RV Capital & know most of the companies & have worked for some as well! But always in management.


Seeing just how badly they are built. Hearing from owners about the problems with new RVs. (Little things like slides not working, massive water leaks, levelers with hydraulic lines not connected, roof A/C draining into the unit, staples through wire insulation, holding tanks not properly secured.) One I saw personally had the taillights on a trailer wired by simply whacking a hole in the aluminum skin with what was probably a dull chisel, with no grommets on the edge. (It took about a year for the wires to short.)