Instead of westerners with high salaries, they can employ local people, train them to test as per their requirement and let them do the job with a conditional pay that is linked to the quantity of acceptable products. This will motivate the quality controllers to ensure quality.
This happens in Japan because when people are educated to do this. The diligently do it.
To PIP the Chinese. We just need to tell the Indian that he is in competition with China and has to do his best to adhere to standards. A well Educated worker is a good Worker
Once we know exactly what the west accepts and teach our workers to adhere to that.
RE:Costs can be reduced if every worker becomes his own QA Manager
by Kurt on Sep 05, 2007 01:08 AM Permalink
I think China cannot be beaten in "Low skill" manufacturing, i.e. making toys, consumer goods etc. Instead India is better at Backoffice/Software outsourcing, which attracts lower liability than manufacturing. It is better we stick to these rather.
Is it really true that our quality has improved in the supplies we make? Unless the exporters realise that our country's honour is involved apart from the money they can earn for their exports things are not going to improve. I see lot of textiles supplied from Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand etc. That clearly shows we are still not able to make quality goods at cheaper cost. I hope our business communities realise the opportunity they have now, since chinese products have created quality problem, and make a permanent impact on US customers and win their confidence so that our exports can soar.
RE:There is no human respect in China for Chinese. They often comes with complaints of others.
by mr on Sep 05, 2007 12:38 AM Permalink
These chinese used to tell they improve qualities.
RE:RE:There is no human respect in China for Chinese. They often comes with complaints of others.
by mr on Sep 05, 2007 12:38 AM Permalink
But never do that.
All these products are not good. It is made of cheap plastic toys. The paints are toxic in nature. They are very bad for health. There were millions of toys were recalled.
I am from industry.In engineering sector.Worked for 26 years. Indians are bigger crooks.I know how they used to cheat by sending substnadard garments under USA quota regime.In india the businesmen ease out proceeses after 2-3 years or some customers start coming.They think they have 'arrived' and no need to give quality.Indian consumers are helpless lot. The Chinese must learn lessons and they must have.The importers should appoint buying agents in exporting countries,those who have integrity,qualification and practical experience,like me.SQC techniques, besides check on exporter's buying process is important to nsure quality. But every one cuts costs. And where the savings go?Not to customers.But lines the pockets of promoters.Look how in india the idiots in industry have fixed for themselves Rs 20 crores annual salary.It is ridiculous.Is not that loot?How it will promote quality and competitiveness of Indian industry? It will weaken it. "Ram Naam ki loot hei loot sake to loot"Liberalisation means loot.India has very poor infrastructure,bad attitudes and they are corrupt too.Not a wining combination.To top it we have highly corrupt and arrogant bureaucracy.Who love blocking everything.Government has started looting,raising all taxes,cess,levies etc in name of globalisation and liberalisation era.Is tax raising and tax levying reforms? With prices galloping,industries can't maintain quality for long as there is limit to absorb costs for products meant for global markets.
If Chinese share goes down from 20% to 19% then Indian output should be 2% of world trade which may go upto 3 % giving 50% boost. This 10 times ratio is quite shameful and clearly tells that China was given more business for some very good reason.
On the other hand why is the trader interested if India cannot handle the extra business. He should be more careful in analysing if his business can take more orders and not worry too much about others. Also he needs to be more careful that his products don't get rejected!
As per the author "The problems I see today at the factories are what I saw in India six or seven years ago," . Are these problems sorted out in present time. How can they achieve so much if they are so backward in their approach. If we have sorted out these problems then what is stopping us? We are always reading infrastructure stories of evey real state companies. But it doesn't seems to me that we are near to china in anyway. We have to think about this problem and find out the solutions ourselves. Can't we replicate the Delhi Metro experience in every infrastructure project or better it. We can. From my point of view the chinese are following the philosophy of economies of scale in every venture they are entering. They know that peanuts can't solve the poblems of billions. We are next behind china in terms of population. We may be no.1 in outsourcing or in ITES supply but to sustain such a population, we have to think big in every aspect. We can't become global leaders in economy terms unless and untill we don't become the top class manufacturing destinaton with innovative technology.See the revenue statistics of every IT company. They are deriving maximum revenue from exporting the sofware solutions. Every organisation be it manufacturing or service sector will have to become forward in their thinking. IT companies will have to realize the requirement of Indian companies and cater to this segment. only then they will be able to balance their business rvenue risk.
RE:Lessons from China's recall episode
by Prof R K Gupta-India on Sep 04, 2007 05:48 PM Permalink
very soon indian wont afford even peanuts to eat.Rs 50 /kg wheras average indian spends less than rs 20 per day as per Arjun Sen Gupta report.Governments own data analysed.Is notn that matter of shame? Where all this great indian story going ?where the money is going?raxes levied and bumper corporate profits?
Govindraj Ethiraj : Stop writing poor articles supporting Chinese manufacturing. What do you mean by : "The flip side is that costs will balloon." ? Do you mean Indians should use toxic products because they are cheap? Stop justifying Chinese misdeeds and stop trashing Indian manufacturers.
