Will Quality Crown New Automaker King?

In your industry, what role does quality play in creating — and sustaining — the market share leader?

Sub-sea drilling, aerospace and semiconductor. Quality is 99.9%

Funny you would ask...

http://www.productionmachining.com/articles/qualitys-role-in-marketing.aspx

milo

In your industry, what role does quality play in creating — and sustaining — the market share leader?

I hate to admit it but after 6 years as machinist, 2 years in food manufacturing and now 2 years in airfoil manufacturing I firmly believe that we (the US) have taken our eye of the ball and started to move in a dangerous direction due to the heavy handed mis-guidance from operations and accounting types. It appears to be strictly a numbers game now of personal goals, departmental metrics and corporate involvement in areas that those types do not understand (quantity NOT quality). Made in the USA Quality must be our approach, we can't do the numbers game against companies that pay their people $100.00 to $200.00 per month.