Originally Posted By: GiveMeAVowel
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
Honda plants in Ohio have a ton of temps making half the wage working next to a Honda employee doing the same job. And the temp service Addeco always wants 100 people to replace those who quit.
Bingo!
This is an epidemic among all the car makers and the tier 1 suppliers, and this is a MAIN reason why you see increasingly inconsistent quality. It's only getting worse, ask me I know I work at a tier one and see this [censored] all the time, it is greed, and a desire to squeeze the last red cent of profit out of the business, which will eventually kill the golden goose, too many clueless over educated and inexperienced MBAs control the businesses today.
Nope, can't agree with you on this issue.
This issue is about quality control, and ensuring that the worker assembles the parts together correctly.
There are 5 parts in the con rod/piston assembly.
Piston
Conrod
2 circlips
pin
Even Engineer20 and Gearheadtool should be able to accomplish this task.
Though, one of them would take three weeks to assemble the parts, and post 15 times making sure he had selected the correct parts from the correct sources, while the other would post 14 times, including a video of him drilling out the wrist pin to be larger diameter on the inside, but that's besides the point.
The worker only needs to assemble these parts together, and make sure the circlips are properly engaged in their grooves. They are failing at this extremely easy task.
The task is easy, and you shouldn't have to pay someone $1500 per hour to do this job in order to get quality work.
Now, try to put the circlips on a 986 Boxster engine.
That requires actual skill, because instead of installing the clips on the parts while they are loose in your hand, you have to install them in a partially built engine, using a borescope, and a clamp tool through a small hole in the engine block.
BC.