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Anyone familiar with electronics manufacturing knows that for most of the people involved in the production of your stuff, English is a second language and roma

Anyone familiar with electronics manufacturing knows that for most of the people involved in the production of your stuff, English is a second language and roman characters are not their primary alphabet. > it's a reason for hitting the big red "OKAY, STOP EVERYTHING" button and re-check of all of the other components and supply chain going into the product. The notion that someone would pause a line over this (even if we were not in the middle of unprecedented component/manufacturing/shipping disruptions) is beyond fucking absurd, much less that anyone would do so until a "re-check of the supply chain" is completed. Production schedules are tight as hell. You miss your deadline for getting the board assembled, they don't make it to the line or factory putting the boards into the chassis on time. That means they've started on another job and now you wait until they have free time on the line. That means you don't get your container to the port on time. That means you miss the space you had paid for on the ship. That means you miss your product launch date. Possibly by months; especially right now, shipping is severely constrained. That means your competitor takes your lunch money.

walrus01 5y ago
If your goal is to crank out the largest quantity of cheapest-unit-priced products as quickly as possible, then yes, absolutely stick with what you just wrote above. Are you familiar with what happened with the counterfeit capacitor plague? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=capacitor+plague https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=capacitor... Keep on cranking out that production line with your suspicious/manufacturer-source-unknown parts with improper labeling on them and end up in a situation with hundreds of millions of dollars of financial damages due to burst capacitors. Not every manufacturer has its absolute and highest goal set as massive quantity/cheap and shoddy QA/lowest price/highest volume possible. For something like a 100Gb ethernet switch, standards should be much higher than the PCBs of a bunch of $40 802.11ac wifi routers to put in a shiny box and sell at Best Buy.
HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
I worked at a place where I had ready access to a large lot of $1,000 "blade" PC's that I could use for experiments, tests, etc., as needed. The reason I had them available is that they were supposed to go into a machine that we sold, but since someone in Receiving missed a step in their inspection process, they all had to be marked as Non-Conforming and could not be used in the machine, even though there was absolutely nothing wrong with them. Since they were a special order, the vendor wasn't about to take them back. So it was either toss tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware in the dumpster or try to find a use for them internally.

walrus01 5y ago

If your goal is to crank out the largest quantity of cheapest-unit-priced products as quickly as possible, then yes, absolutely stick with what you just wrote above. Are you familiar with what happened with the counterfeit capacitor plague? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=capacitor+plague https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=capacitor... Keep on cranking out that production line with your suspicious/manufacturer-source-unknown parts with improper labeling on them and end up in a situation with hundreds of millions of dollars of financial damages due to burst capacitors. Not every manufacturer has its absolute and highest goal set as massive quantity/cheap and shoddy QA/lowest price/highest volume possible. For something like a 100Gb ethernet switch, standards should be much higher than the PCBs of a bunch of $40 802.11ac wifi routers to put in a shiny box and sell at Best Buy.

HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago

I worked at a place where I had ready access to a large lot of $1,000 "blade" PC's that I could use for experiments, tests, etc., as needed. The reason I had them available is that they were supposed to go into a machine that we sold, but since someone in Receiving missed a step in their inspection process, they all had to be marked as Non-Conforming and could not be used in the machine, even though there was absolutely nothing wrong with them. Since they were a special order, the vendor wasn't about to take them back. So it was either toss tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware in the dumpster or try to find a use for them internally.