Thursday Feb 11 2010
The Chinese are famous for their disregard of copyrights, patents and other IP infringements. BYD
is copying entire cars and assembly lines and then attempting to duplicate the effort. So far this is successful. Moving the industrial revolution backwards, they use humans rather than robots, absorbing a huge quantity of unacceptable waste. Will this work?
If it did, gee, American Motors (Rambler) should have copied their competitors. To a degree AM did, using Ford carburetors and Chrysler transmissions. But the result was a hodgepodge, not a unified effort. Benchmarking can take different forms will this be a successful long term strategy, As the article says, eventually the manufacturer must innovate on its own.
Professor Elam 
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