>>64029457>I buy made in india car parts all the time. Its not that bad quality. Often the problem is the engineering of the car than spare part made in locationThe problem isn't "bad quality" as some sort of binary, it's in how you have to ride herd. MBA fags that have infested companies for awhile now have often treated outsourcing as a magic button where they get identical factory experience except now it's cheaper. The more complex reality is that outsourcing is its own entire skill set that can work or not for a company. It requires serious work and investment. You need to ride herd hard, and have extremely serious quality testing and production processes that you can monitor the entire way, not just when it arrives in the US but at the factory which means development relationships and expertise over there. You have to be extremely explicit in every last one of your specs, not the looser higher trust "they will do the right thing themselves", and be aware of the culture. A lot of places will sell the same things at different prices, but if you go for a cheap price, they will just silently make it shittier.
>"They went cheap, of course the result is cheap, what did they expect!?"Any ambiguity will be taken as permission to substitute in random shit that might screw things up, anything that isn't obviously seen or tested for can also be cheaped out on (correct heat treating say). You can't just take pricing at face value. And your entire design has to be engineered to take all that into account and the capabilities. CAD will cheerfully let you specify tolerances that cannot be met at the price you want. Nobody will necessarily tell you this, but instead just produce what they can and let you find out (or not, until customers complain).
Somehow though companies are still learning this again and again the hard way.