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As many of you are aware, Raymarine has a factory, a service centre and a main Headquarters building in Portsmouth. Many of us have nipped into the service center and had good service.

News yesterday that Raymarine was closing the factory and moving it out to the Far East (cant remeember exactly where), but the HQ would remain. I dont know what will happen about the service centre.

Apparently this is the only way to keep pricess competitive - does anyone expect a reduction in cost of Raymarine items?, or possibly a reduction in quality?
 
Reduction in price..............Dream on.
Chinese kit judging by other electronic/mechanical stuff coming onto the market seems to be pretty good.
The real breakthrough will be when the Chinese expertise matures and they start making and designing stuff from scratch rather than acting as sub contractor to the western multi's.Whether they would consider the marine market as big enough to exploit is another matter.
 
This is not a good new!
On the longer period if the western civilisation will transfer factories to Far East in running for profit ( decreasing costs) they will loose in all fields such as working places, R/D , political positions ..... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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Reduction in price..............Dream on.
Chinese kit judging by other electronic/mechanical stuff coming onto the market seems to be pretty good.
The real breakthrough will be when the Chinese expertise matures and they start making and designing stuff from scratch rather than acting as sub contractor to the western multi's

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the chinese copy everything .... patented or not. foget about the 'designing stuff from scratch stuff' .......

and quality ........ no comment - just keep the receipt if it is under gaurentee
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Appreciate your concerns about the service centre, but why the worries about the quality ? Never owned a Japanese car or bought lump of Far East electronics ? The quality might even improve.
 
Yep, I agree with you about the service, always friendly and very efficient. Free for what I've had done too!!

Whilst I don't feel quality will necessarily suffer if manufacture is moved abroad, I am vehemently opposed to our exporting our jobs there. I don't believe any price reductions will result (when have they ever in these situations) but the service side may suffer. If it does, sales will drop and the exercise may end up self-defeating.

I would be astonished if Raymarine do close/reduce the service facilities, but we all know how much pressure the bottom line can bring, and how short sighted some CEO's can be.
 
<< and how short sighted some CEO's can be >>

I would say rather institutional investors. They are the ones who hold the purse strings and demand 16% increase in net profits year over year - irrespective of the economic conditions - or they will place their capital elsewhere...

John
 
Quote "the chinese copy everything .... patented or not. foget about the 'designing stuff from scratch stuff' ......."

They said that about the Japanese! Just look at engineering research students in UK universities. Research teams are full of students who will return to the far east, especially China, with a good understanding of UK technologies.

Very sad, perhaps Chirac is right. I am trying hard to persuade eldest daughter who is taking science 'A' levels, to adopt Mrs Blair as an effective role model, and not to follow four generations into an engineering career.
 
This CEO has a history - he's the one that killed the manufacturing at Pace Micro in Bradford. All made abroad now.
It isn't necessarily going to the Far East, some of the major CEM's (as they are called) such as Flextronics have plants in Eastern Europe as I know - my previous company was taken out with a no-notice switch of work to a factory near Gdansk. My money is on Hungary FWIW.
 
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