Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/1/99 2:18:39 PM Central Daylight Time, imxputs@knoware.nl writes: << Most modern companies in the western world do the three things that they know best: design a product, find suppliers for many components and assemble the product to their specification and design/production philosophy. >> Mr. Puts took issue with my suggestion that Solms is an assembler rather than a precision manufacturer since he earlier advised Solms was outsourcing the parts used in the cameras. Then in his later post he takes issue with that conclusion but wrote the above which appears to support my conclusion that Solms is an assembler as opposed to a manufacturer. Mr. Puts also illustrated his suggestion with companies such as Porsche, BMW, Nikon, Apple, IBM, etc. Quite frankly, I do not find any similarity between the precision products manufactured by the carmakers and the cameras and I have not heard Apple and IBM suggest they are manufacturers of their PC's even though IBM makes some fine hard drives. Therefore, we must be in agreement that Solms is an assembler rather than a manufacturer like E. Leitz Wetzlar. As assembler, we must hope Solms will set up quality control stations to check the camera parts it buys on the market that go into the cameras so the customer can be assured the cameras will work right out of the box. Thanks again, Mr. Puts, for further clarifying the "assembler" nature of the company.