[Elecraft] Parts availability

[David Gilbert]

Just In Time and its corollary concepts brought amazing efficiencies to 
global manufacturing for decades and enabled cost reductions that we now 
take for granted.  I know that first hand ... I was the operations 
manager for a large division of a major semiconductor company for many 
years.  I think it is exceedingly lame to denigrate the entire concept 
because a once-in-a century global pandemic brought the world supply 
chain to its knees.  It's not only JIT adherents that are running out of 
parts, and I'd bet that the contractual relationships that major JIT 
manufacturers have with their suppliers means that they are going to get 
their parts before the ones who don't.  Who do you think is going to get 
components first ... Elecraft or Hewlett-Packard?

It's crazy how some people try to use an aberration to justify a 
reactionary bias.

Dave   AB7E



On 10/18/2021 4:24 PM, James Driskell wrote:
> Unfortunately, the "Just In Time" concept that many US manufacturers have built their businesses around never considered the "you're never going to get it" approach that we now see.  I hope someone is taking a hard look at our national resource network because if the balloon goes up, we're going to have a hard time cranking up the domestic supply chain to meet our basic needs.  We probably won't have the luxury of being able to take our time to get it running.
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> Jim W7OWI
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