Comments for China Manufacturing, Etc. http://china-manufacturing.net/blog My musings on... anything Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Gordon Chang gets it wrong again (updated post) by Andrew http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/09/02/gordon-chang-gets-it-wrong-again-updated-post/#comment-15699 Andrew Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:27:54 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1643#comment-15699 I saw this charlatan on Bloomberg yesterday. He’s clearly lost all touch with reality and its a sad statement on the corporate media that he’s cited as some kind of expert source.

]]> Comment on Should you automate your China factory? by Why semi-automation is better than full automation http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/01/05/robotics-or-autonomation/#comment-2712 Why semi-automation is better than full automation Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:27:37 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1137#comment-2712 [...] Unfortunately, by pursuing full automation, they do not address the most important opportunity for savings – the optimization of the whole system. I already wrote on this subject two years ago. David Levy agrees with me. [...]

]]> Comment on Foxconn workers will get more money for fewer hours. What about better hours? by Why semi-automation is better than full automation http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/03/31/foxconn-workers-will-get-more-money-for-fewer-hours-what-about-better-hours/#comment-2711 Why semi-automation is better than full automation Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:25:35 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1391#comment-2711 [...] It also means they can work on more tasks and have a richer work content (I bet Foxconn workers wouldn’t jump from rooftops if they could learn something on their jobs, and David Levy agrees with me). [...]

]]> Comment on Ethical, profitable & competitive China manufacturing: focus on labor value, not labor costs by Emily Woods http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/04/03/ethical-profitable-competitive-china-manufacturing-focus-on-labor-value-not-labor-costs/#comment-1160 Emily Woods Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:28:25 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1430#comment-1160 HI,

I have been finding your blog very interesting. My mother and I have started a craft kit business in UK, and we need to find suppliers for things like tiny scissors, knitting needles, crochet hooks, mini pliers etc.

We have come across manufactures in china for the scissors at the price we need but we want to be sure nothing we source comes from sweatshops or has been created unethically.

Can you give us any advise a to how to find out whether a company is reputable and ethical or not?? We simply cannot find out whether the companies we come across trade fairly and fairly pay their staff or not and we are getting desperate to find suppliers. Also, as a very early business we do not have the possibility of coming to china to check out any factories.

Really appreciate any advice you can give!

Regards

Emily Woods
Emma May Craft

]]> Comment on Gordon Chang gets it wrong again (updated post) by David http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/09/02/gordon-chang-gets-it-wrong-again-updated-post/#comment-1149 David Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:06:58 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1643#comment-1149 My question is this: how did they move all those cars from the factory to the secret parking lots without buying more gasoline?

]]> Comment on Gordon Chang gets it wrong again (updated post) by David http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/09/02/gordon-chang-gets-it-wrong-again-updated-post/#comment-1148 David Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:05:56 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1643#comment-1148 Actually, the economist cited in that article is in New York, but she and her marbles are from the Netherlands, not from the empty-chair country!

]]> Comment on Gordon Chang gets it wrong again (updated post) by Cornelius Mueller http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/09/02/gordon-chang-gets-it-wrong-again-updated-post/#comment-1145 Cornelius Mueller Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:44:33 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1643#comment-1145 Mr. Chang, however, is not alone. From the land where old people have conversations with lonely chairs comes this entertaining piece of prose:
China – not Wall Street – caused 2008 crisis (http://www.cnbc.com/id/48814165)
I suggest to make an inventory of this people’s marbles before anything serious is going to happen

]]> Comment on Gordon Chang gets it wrong again (updated post) by Cornelius Mueller http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/09/02/gordon-chang-gets-it-wrong-again-updated-post/#comment-1143 Cornelius Mueller Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:57:12 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1643#comment-1143 You have to give Mr. Chang some credit. Seriously. He’s getting paid to repeat the same stuff year by year. Look at this one:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/22/china-growth-gdp-economy-opinions-columnists-gordon-g-chang.html
It’s my favorite one, just look at this passage:
‘–there are reports that central government officials have ordered state enterprises to buy fleets of vehicles and that these businesses are storing them in parking lots across the country.’
Evidence?
‘–statistics showing that gasoline sales have been flat this year–up only 6.4% in August, for instance, and sliding since then from all indications. So here’s another question: At a time when economic activity is supposedly rising at a quick pace, how can large increases in passenger vehicle sales not be accompanied by corresponding surges in fuel usage?’
You just have to love it!

]]> Comment on Tenacious but irrelevant by David http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/04/24/tenacious-but-irrelevant/#comment-114 David Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:20:27 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1467#comment-114 All good points. Also, these guys will be telling their grandchildren about the time, back in 2012, when they joined the revolution.

]]> Comment on Tenacious but irrelevant by Cornelius Mueller http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/2012/04/24/tenacious-but-irrelevant/#comment-113 Cornelius Mueller Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:36:32 +0000 http://china-manufacturing.net/blog/?p=1467#comment-113 Yep, they are camping (in) there for a while already. I think I saw them first time last year in October or November and, judging from your pictures, it seems to be more of them now. And why not? The weather is pleasant, it has more space than the average Hong Kong apartment and it gives all those attending a sense of community.

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