My company makes very large industrial equipment. Hundreds of customers refuse (actually writing it in their specifications) that our parts all the way down to the castings are NOT sourced from China nor India due to quality problems.
Oh. Yeah. I'd spec. out 2micon thick chome, and after the first order it'd be 1 micron thick. Or spec. out 3M adhesive, and find it replaced with "joes" adhesive. Wed ask for no substitutes, and theyd BS us about it not being available.
Theyd substitute inks, steels, everything, with cheap crap.
My company makes very large industrial equipment. Hundreds of customers refuse (actually writing it in their specifications) that our parts all the way down to the castings are NOT sourced from China nor India due to quality problems.
Oh. Yeah. I'd spec. out 2micon thick chome, and after the first order it'd be 1 micron thick. Or spec. out 3M adhesive, and find it replaced with "joes" adhesive. Wed ask for no substitutes, and theyd BS us about it not being available. Theyd substitute inks, steels, everything, with cheap crap.
Reminds me of this story/rant on 4chan regarding Chinese manufacturing crap - fun read: https://old.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/4aaw2m/anon_hates_the_chinese/
TLDR: anon ordered specified steel, sample was okay, subsequent orders were different, the Chinese guy said "we followed local standard".