Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gene, You had it easy. I probably had to approve 3 or 4 ECO's a day. While some changes were easy to approve like substituting one vendor for another on a common part, some were more difficult and required small pilot runs when the parts were slightly different. In our case we only notified our customers when form, fit or function was changed. Also the customer was another company and we better notify them. I think Leica had a problem in this case. The change required a change to the firmware which would be noticed quite quickly and then questioned by the user base. Like "Hey, the new cameras have new firmware. The new cameras must be better then the old ones. Where can I send my camera to be upgraded?" I think they did the right thing. Good for them. Len On Sep 22, 2007, at 12:54 AM, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: > Very true. I have about 3 or more engineering change orders every > week for approval to use a replacement part where the suppliers > have changed or replaced a part with a new one, which may or may > not be an exact fit or function replacement. > > Gene > > -------------- Original message from Stan Yoder > <s.yoder@verizon.net>: -------------- > > >>> If I'm a manufacturer I don't go around telling people I'm having to >>> botch something together because I don't have the parts - IMO, >>> the silly >>> buggers could just as well have kept quiet about the new version. >>> >> >> What? And have another bunch of neurotic yahoos bitch about >> Leica's buggery >> secretive practices? >> >> And anyway, it's not about not having parts, it's about a supplier >> changing a >> part, which happens >> all the time in most product lives. >> >> Stan Yoder >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information