Tuesday, January 19, 2010

All these recalls.

Today there was a recall of cribs after a baby died. And a car company had to recall some calls for defective parts. I can understand that since the cribs are made abroad, they may have lax requirements of manufacturing, but still there is no excuse and the distributer or the importer should have tested the products before distributing or marketing it to the retailers. But I cannot understand how a car manufacturer making cars in the United States where there are strict requirements for product manufacturing and stricter liability of compliance have to recall their cars because of some defective parts.

Every year there a certain number of cars being recalled for some defective parts. I mean if these manufacturers could really test their goods before selling it to the public it would be nice and their reputation will go up. But even after a long bruising with reputation and bankrupting themselves ( I mean the car manufacturers) they have not learnt their lesson and keep on churning defective products year in and year out. No wonder their share of the market is going down. Unless these manufacturers adhere to the strictest standards of quality and manufacturing there is no hope for them because the reputation and the perception of the people is very hard to change and it takes a long time to do it.

I mean can you imagine if the big airline manufacturers had to recall their products every now and then to fix the parts, what kind of manufacturing capacity will we have remaining then.

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