[ARC5] When Them Chinese Caps Say "400VDC"

[Dennis Monticelli]

The story about Deming is very true and few US industries realized
before it was too late.  The young semiconductor industry caught on to
this in the early 80's, cleaned up their act and reversed the tide of
Japanese IC imports.  I know, I was there.  I wish I could say the
same for some of the other US industries, such as automotive.  Of the
big three, Ford took it more seriously than the others.

Dennis AE6C

On 12/3/12, brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au <brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Let's be very careful here, people.
>
> W Edwards Deming did his PhD under Shewhart in the US. General MacArthur saw
> the state of Japanese manufacturing after WWII and looked for a production
> quality guru. Deming could not get anyone interested in his ideas in the US
> - but MacArthur saw the benefit - and then the Japaneses learned what
> eventually became Total Quality Management.
>
> Even as late as 1986, Peters and Waterman in 'Pursuit of excellence' and
> then Peters in 'Surviving on Chaos' bemoaned that the US just was not
> interested in quality - all it wanted was mass production.
>
> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
>
>
>
>> Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Dec 2012 at 17:13, Jim Haynes wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The situation with such stuff is very much akin to the problem with
>> > > Japanese-made stuff just prior to WWII: they sent us that junk
>> > > because they thought we wanted it.
>> > >
>> > Whereas, in more recent times, I remember when RAM chips were being
>> > made in the U.S. and in Japan.  I read that the U.S. makers of
>> > computers much preferred the Japanese chips because the U.S. makers
>> > shipped everything they made; the Japanese makers only shipped the
>> > good ones.
>>
>> As I said.....prior to WWII....yes, they learned better....from US...
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
>>
>> "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John
>> Wayne
>>
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