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Not wasted. Stocked by automakers, for their own use. Car manufacturers have the nasty habit of keeping no stock —at all— even of inexpensive stuff like microc
by Dr_ReD 4y ago
Not wasted. Stocked by automakers, for their own use.
Car manufacturers have the nasty habit of keeping no stock —at all— even of inexpensive stuff like microchips, smd components, nuts, bolts... and ordering everything "just in time", while at the same time maintaining a steel-fisted strangle-hold on suppliers which are obliged to provide them what's needed when, or die.
- tzs 4y agoSomeone should probably have a stock, but it is not clear to me that it should be the automakers. For those components that are used by multiple different automakers (and others) wouldn't it make more sense for the component manufacturers to be the ones stocking?