there's also training to consider. japanese automotive worker have more training, less turnaround than other workers, a greater incentive to stick with a single

there's also training to consider. japanese automotive worker have more training, less turnaround than other workers, a greater incentive to stick with a single company because of the "honor rules" that drive their planned careers and in general they are rewarded to optimized their workflow instead of berated with even more work. also, local manufacturer where I live are famous for messing up hiring non qualified workers. Panda had a recall because seats weren't correctly screwed in, for example. most of the time when you dig the faults are in the manual part of the lines. And the Alfa I drive has only one misaligned component, and it's the manually placed windshield - the alignment mark are off more than an inch! that's not to say that the problem is in the workers themselves, because their training and their efficiency is part of how the company configure the plant, but it's not just the work ethic of individual workers, more like the work culture of the whole company