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Well, I have a feeling that the fact that US median salary is around 5 times the Chinese is also plays a role here…
So for the same job which requires a human you have to pay ~5 times more to be made in the US, and for a black coated box like the one in the video it doesn’t really matter if it will be sitting in a container for 1 week or 4 weeks, so that’s a reason as well…
He speaks about in the video that the Chinese design details for him for free. But whose liability would be if that weld in the corner breaks? He will tell it was because the manufacturer used some bad welding practice, but he will have to pay for that. Good luck trying to sue a sweatshop in China from the US… The American company asks for details to cover their asses, not because they don’t know, so for a design failure they can point to the designer.
I’m not a metal shop I’m a software development company
This perfectly sums up. You don’t know what you are doing and the Chinese also see this, but they see it as an exploitable stupid American, who has no idea what he speaks about, so they can sell him the lowest quality product…
so they can sell him the lowest quality product…
The guy in the video is working with that for 6 years and did not complain about the quality, he actually praise it a lot, if the lowest quality product is enough for their business why make it more complex?
What is the source in this video, btw who is this guy? It’s linked on Youghurt’s channel, not from a primary source. He says this 6 years thing at the beginning but later he speaks about that box as a new product.
Why do you believe the US median salary is higher than the median Chinese salary if China is the country producing the majority of what is used in the US? Chinese manufacturing is technologically advanced and high-quality, we no longer live in the 80s and 90s.
Maybe 5 is not the exact number but it should be in that range.
I never said the quality is generally bad, but I think he misunderstands why other companies ask for details, that’s my point. If you don’t design something with enough details, you basically allows someone else to design it with your name on it.
Do you think Apple just sends a vague sketch about the iphone to china and let them figure out the details? As a designer you shouldn’t do that, because if something wrong happens with that thing it’s your liability.
He won’t tell the Chinese company what kind of welding should they use, so you can be sure they will use the cheapest method, because they also need money for food. If he would design the product correctly, with requiring standards, than I guess the price would be also higher, because now the Chinese company can’t use the cheaper option.
I’m aware of the design process, Engineers frequently write specs and requirements for manufacturing in addition to schematics, dxfs, etc. My point is more to why you seem to keep a 1990s attitude towards Chinese manufacturing and seem to think a USian-made commodity would be better than a Chinese-made commodity. US manufacturing is lagging behind because the US’s manufacturing has atrophied.
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Well, I have a feeling that the fact that US median salary is around 5 times the Chinese is also plays a role here…
So for the same job which requires a human you have to pay ~5 times more to be made in the US, and for a black coated box like the one in the video it doesn’t really matter if it will be sitting in a container for 1 week or 4 weeks, so that’s a reason as well…
He speaks about in the video that the Chinese design details for him for free. But whose liability would be if that weld in the corner breaks? He will tell it was because the manufacturer used some bad welding practice, but he will have to pay for that. Good luck trying to sue a sweatshop in China from the US… The American company asks for details to cover their asses, not because they don’t know, so for a design failure they can point to the designer.
This perfectly sums up. You don’t know what you are doing and the Chinese also see this, but they see it as an exploitable stupid American, who has no idea what he speaks about, so they can sell him the lowest quality product…
What is the source in this video, btw who is this guy? It’s linked on Youghurt’s channel, not from a primary source. He says this 6 years thing at the beginning but later he speaks about that box as a new product.
No idea.
Why do you believe the US median salary is higher than the median Chinese salary if China is the country producing the majority of what is used in the US? Chinese manufacturing is technologically advanced and high-quality, we no longer live in the 80s and 90s.
I looked it up on the internet, e.g here it has only mean data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-country
Maybe 5 is not the exact number but it should be in that range.
I never said the quality is generally bad, but I think he misunderstands why other companies ask for details, that’s my point. If you don’t design something with enough details, you basically allows someone else to design it with your name on it.
Do you think Apple just sends a vague sketch about the iphone to china and let them figure out the details? As a designer you shouldn’t do that, because if something wrong happens with that thing it’s your liability.
He won’t tell the Chinese company what kind of welding should they use, so you can be sure they will use the cheapest method, because they also need money for food. If he would design the product correctly, with requiring standards, than I guess the price would be also higher, because now the Chinese company can’t use the cheaper option.
I’m aware of the design process, Engineers frequently write specs and requirements for manufacturing in addition to schematics, dxfs, etc. My point is more to why you seem to keep a 1990s attitude towards Chinese manufacturing and seem to think a USian-made commodity would be better than a Chinese-made commodity. US manufacturing is lagging behind because the US’s manufacturing has atrophied.