http://www.qualityinspection.org/why-quality-can-be-so-bad-in-china/ Advice and tips for successful quality control of consumer products made in China & Asia: sourcing strategies, quality control... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:05:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.qualityinspection.org/why-quality-can-be-so-bad-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Inspection of jeans in Wenzhou « Quality Inspection Blog Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:43:54 +0000 http://www.qualityinspection.org/?p=42#comment-33 [...] What really happened is this: the importer placed orders to a “main factory” that he probably visited and approved. This factory buys the materials and gives the sewing job to smaller workshops, to lower its costs and increase its capacity. There were two different workshops for this order, fortunately in the same city. Since then, I noticed this type of arrangement is very common in China—not only in the garment industry. That’s probably what people call “entrepreneurial” behavior: doing whatever is necessary to make a quick buck. I already touched on this issue in Why can quality be so bad in China? [...] [...] What really happened is this: the importer placed orders to a “main factory” that he probably visited and approved. This factory buys the materials and gives the sewing job to smaller workshops, to lower its costs and increase its capacity. There were two different workshops for this order, fortunately in the same city. Since then, I noticed this type of arrangement is very common in China—not only in the garment industry. That’s probably what people call “entrepreneurial” behavior: doing whatever is necessary to make a quick buck. I already touched on this issue in Why can quality be so bad in China? [...]

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