Our products are approved by UL, FM, CSA, MSHA, etc. With every change, I have to resubmit to these agencies at a few thousand dollars each to maintain the approvals.
Blair
>>> [log in to unmask] 05/18/05 07:58PM >>>
curious .. why does it cost "tens of thousands of dollars" to "roll the
revision" , In Asia it costs about $ 1.00. Could that be the reason why most
of the high volume business moved to Asia ?
Wolfgang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Grant" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TN] SMOBC question...
> That "roll the revision" complaint is valid for the designer. Even in
> the non-Military realm, it cost tens of thousands of dollars to get
> product #XXX-revision X qualified with customer A, and they only do
> qualifications within certain windows of opportunity. Changing a
> revision of a drawing often means requalifying, and if the window is
> closed, loss of sales because the product is no longer qualified, which
> could mean losses of millions of dollars... Whew! Who'd of thought
> that just changing a little thing would cost so much. It's pretty
> frustrating and makes a guy want to just slap someone!
>
> Ryan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Gregory
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:13 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] SMOBC question...
>
> Jack,
>
> I wish there were designers like you at the customers
> we deal with...and sometimes (to make the communication
> problem even worse), a design is not our customers design,
> but something they have outsourced.
>
> But even if you do get to communicate with the actual designer,
> and then find out that a note on the drawing is pretty meaningless,
> and makes the fab that much harder to build, many times I have
> heard; "Well, if we remove the note from the drawing, that'll mean
> we'll have to roll the revision on the drawing, and that's just too much
> trouble..."
>
> Kind regards,
>
> -Steve Gregory-
> Senior Process Engineer
> LaBarge Incorporated
> Tulsa, Oklahoma
> (918) 459-2285
> (918) 459-2350 FAX
>
>
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