Too bad certain GM engineers, upper-management and lawyers screwed up on the ignition switch, because the publicity generated by that fiasco is hiding a longer-duration problem for the whole industry, and that is the global supplier system. The average car is a hodge-lodge of parts sourced into assembly plants from all over, just-in-time, and with no room for error. The companies were better off building the majority of components in-house, where they had control of their own processes.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:38:22 +0000
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