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Uli Behringer of The Music Group Q&A
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<blockquote data-quote="Uli Behringer" data-source="post: 51250" data-attributes="member: 1604"><p>Re: Uli Behringer of The Music Group Q&A</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Dear Jason, thank you for your comment.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I am sorry to hear about the trouble you have experienced. Indeed some years ago we had a problem with a flat ribbon cable which caused intermittent connectivity due to improper crimping on the connector side.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In electronics, connectors and cables are the single biggest cause for failure. Because of that reason, we decided around four years ago to move the assembly of all cables in-house. Some of you who have been part of our yearly arranged factory tour have seen the highly automated production area. At the end of the production line every single cable is tested before it is qualified for use.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Allow me to comment on failure rates.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Thomann is the largest dealer in Europe and as a matter of transparency he publishes all manufacturers’ failure rates. You might be surprised to see that Behringer has one of the lowest failure rates in the industry.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In the link below you can exchange the manufacturer name in the URL which will give you the failure rate of any other manufacturer. The rate is displayed in the upper right corner. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><a href="http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer.html" target="_blank">http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer.html</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Behringer’s failure rate is at 0.73% which represents an average over the last three years. Due to the massive investments in quality systems and people especially last year, the number of returns today is even lower than indicated.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">We are surely not perfect and never will, but we are extremely focused on quality management systems such as ISO9000, DFM, Lean Six Sigma or "Kaizen" which is Japanese and translates to "constant improvement". Kaizen is a system that involves all employees, from the executives down to the cleaners and all employees are encouraged to come up with little suggestions how to improve their workplace or anything else they feel can be improved. Companies such as GE and Toyota invented those systems, however you can only implement Kaizen in your manufacturing environment when you actually own the factory, which we do.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">There are quite a few videos about our factory already out there and we will post more to show you how our factory looks like.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uli Behringer, post: 51250, member: 1604"] Re: Uli Behringer of The Music Group Q&A [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]Dear Jason, thank you for your comment.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana] [/FONT][FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]I am sorry to hear about the trouble you have experienced. Indeed some years ago we had a problem with a flat ribbon cable which caused intermittent connectivity due to improper crimping on the connector side. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]In electronics, connectors and cables are the single biggest cause for failure. Because of that reason, we decided around four years ago to move the assembly of all cables in-house. Some of you who have been part of our yearly arranged factory tour have seen the highly automated production area. At the end of the production line every single cable is tested before it is qualified for use. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]Allow me to comment on failure rates. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]Thomann is the largest dealer in Europe and as a matter of transparency he publishes all manufacturers’ failure rates. You might be surprised to see that Behringer has one of the lowest failure rates in the industry. In the link below you can exchange the manufacturer name in the URL which will give you the failure rate of any other manufacturer. The rate is displayed in the upper right corner. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2] [URL]http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer.html[/URL] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana][SIZE=2]Behringer’s failure rate is at 0.73% which represents an average over the last three years. Due to the massive investments in quality systems and people especially last year, the number of returns today is even lower than indicated. We are surely not perfect and never will, but we are extremely focused on quality management systems such as ISO9000, DFM, Lean Six Sigma or "Kaizen" which is Japanese and translates to "constant improvement". Kaizen is a system that involves all employees, from the executives down to the cleaners and all employees are encouraged to come up with little suggestions how to improve their workplace or anything else they feel can be improved. Companies such as GE and Toyota invented those systems, however you can only implement Kaizen in your manufacturing environment when you actually own the factory, which we do. There are quite a few videos about our factory already out there and we will post more to show you how our factory looks like. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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