[ARC5] Manufacturing and expertise, (was Switching DC-DC Power Supplies)

[Phillip Carpenter]

The present system has been emphasizing short term profits over long term planned growth since MBAs took over the leadership positions in technology driven corporations (I.e. Since the late 1950s/early 1960s).

And it's all become worse with forced mergers taking place. And stockholders demanding continuing stock gains. Profits drive all decisions with little to no strategic planning these days, with a very few exceptions of forward thinking corporations (many of these privately held).

Phillip

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> On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Short vs long term goals. The present system incentivizes corporations to optimize short term profit over strategic goals. 
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
>> On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello All,
>> There are two points here.  So - the chip has only Chinese
>> identification?
>> 
>>  In the long run, engineering expertise migrates to the geographical
>>  location where items are made.
>> This is because the manufacturing process (and manufacturing
>> equipment) always reveals problems in the process or finished product.
>> The production line is the only place where the problem can be fixed
>> and is often the place where the problem is identified.
>> 
>> So expertise migrates to the factory (or whatever).
>> 
>> If a product began in USA (IC chips, for example) there is a strong
>> chance it will be lost to the 'host' country - in this example China.
>> The cycle may take decades (probably will take decades) - but the end
>> result is inevitable.
>> I'm not an economist, but I'm not sure that training in economics
>> gives insights like this.
>> 
>> 73 de Les Smith
>> vk2bcu at operamail.com
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015, at 03:31, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>>> Probably true in most cases, but the chip on my converter has four
>>> Chinese characters but no numbers at all!I was very surprised to see
>>> that.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    On Thursday, October 15, 2015 12:14 PM, "mstangelo at comcast.net"
>>>    <mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The Chinese ones are usually based on a typical application of the IC
>>> chip manufacturer.
>>> 
>>> Find out which IC is used and look at the data an dapplication sheets.
>>> 
>>> Mike N2MS
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
>>> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
>>> Sent: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:30:12 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Subject: [ARC5] Switching DC-DC Power Supplies
>>> 
>>> By the way, does anyone have any idea how to get inside some of the 12VDC
>>> to 125VAC off-the shelf inverters and change the output voltage to
>>> something a bit lower?
>>> 
>>> Wayne
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