Building stuff

["Chris and Ranae Procyk" <procyk19@domain.elided>]

The whole suppliers/manufactures (OEMs) thing is always interesting.  The
suppliers think they can make money 'cause they just can concentrate on one
thing (then once they get good they get hubris and buy other suppliers, as
Ken said), and the manufacturers keep trying to push cost and risk onto the
suppliers.

One problem the big ole' manufacturers have always had is that they usually
have the highest hourly employee cost.  If they outsource, the smaller
suppliers can often get better contracts with even the same union because
they are always a threat to collapse.

Has anyone here heard of the infamous Inaki Lopez?  Last I heard he was
going to make the suppliers actually install their own stuff on his assembly
line.

The best player of the "supplier" game is Intel, who seems to make almost
all the profit off a PC sale.

In Use: 70 1210 4x4 TE, 73 1210 WM
Project (2nd time) 67 1000B PU
Parts: 67 1000B TA   68 1100 4x4 TA  72 1010 TA