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It seems to me that if you can make a product of a given quality very cheaply, that probably indicates that you're very good at making it. The fact that I can'
by jbay808 5y ago
It seems to me that if you can make a product of a given quality very cheaply, that probably indicates that you're very good at making it.
The fact that I can't get competitive production quotes in the USA for most products, like electric motors, injection molded plastic parts, printed circuit boards, stamped metal parts, castings, etc, suggests that the US is also not particularly efficient at making those parts. There was a time when the cheapest place to go for such things in production volumes was actually the US.
- holoduke 5y agoIsn't the time right now?
- OldHand2018 5y agoThe price quotes you are getting also include the opportunity costs of saying no to other people wanting to pay for that manufacturing capacity. The people I know that are running manufacturing aren’t exactly hurting for business. Now is just not the time to lock in high quantities of low-cost stuff. This article is about TSMC raising prices for what little capacity they have unallocated. We can all agree that they are probably the best in the world at what they do, yet there is no way you will get “competitive production quotes” from them for commodity chips. Jim Bob’s Plastic and Stuff out in Fort Wayne is no different. Now, Jim Bob is probably going to cut you a deal way sooner than TSMC is, but I know of a certain mega-big car company that shut down an engine plant for a week because Jim Bob said last years prices aren’t this years prices - and you probably aren’t as big as mega-big car company.