Now the Japanese have designed, engineered and implemented extremely robust quality control systems like Kaisan and Six Sigma which are now replicated back to the American car industry and used in many manufacturing companies across the globe plus here in the UK.
It took a many years for the Japanese product to gain the confidence of the rest of the world regarding the quality and reliability of their exported products and now they are at the top of the game.
It would take a few more years yet for the Chinese to build a reputation of high end quality before I had a Chinese car parked on my drive.
I am still very uneasy about anything manufactured in China (apart from rice) especially expensive high end products, you can have the product designed, engineered, tested and proven with even the press tools and other manufacturing equipment finished to the highest standard but Chinese quality control is very poor.
The Japanese had the same poor reputation for quality control in the late 60's early 70's with their car manufacturing and asked American car giants to come over and help implement systems to increase quality and reliability. It's not just the physical mechanics of the quality control but the employees have to become an integral part of the process and form a partnership in the system and fully buy into it.
Now the Japanese have designed, engineered and implemented extremely robust quality control systems like Kaisan and Six Sigma which are now replicated back to the American car industry and used in many manufacturing companies across the globe plus here in the UK.
It took a many years for the Japanese product to gain the confidence of the rest of the world regarding the quality and reliability of their exported products and now they are at the top of the game.
It would take a few more years yet for the Chinese to build a reputation of high end quality before I had a Chinese car parked on my drive.