11-18-2010, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by fuct
great post Chris from AP racing, but cant a manufacture find the savings (the -2% a year) in other facets of the process of producing the calipers? ie. modifying the indutrial engineering side to help make them more efficently?
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From the OE programs I've been involved with over the years, the parts supplier often quotes a little lower than they really want to be. Once the production items are all sorted out, the project usually gets handed off to "cost-down engineers". These guys/gals to nothing put pick over the bones looking for every reduction possible (materials, processing, part count reduction, efficiency in assembly and so on). Their priority is cost, not performance improvements. They must find cost reductions or their employer cannot justify having them there.
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