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www.tymphany.com schreef:

You need look no further than Tymphany's PanYu, China manufacturing facility for additional evidence of the merger's benefits. While the transition to China began before DST and Tymphany joined forces, our improved financial strength has also enabled us to make much larger investments in our Chinese production facilities than we could have made as DST alone. As a result, we now have a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in China that is starting to turn out tweeters and woofers of the highest quality in the world, and that can handle high volume production with ease.

No discussion of manufacturing is complete right now without acknowledging some of the bumps that emerged on the road to establishing a world-class production facility in China. Unfortunately, many of Tymphany's existing customers have experienced some of these bumps on the path to restructuring the manufacturing sites that produce our great audio solutions, but I'm happy to report that the road has finally been smoothed, as the dramatic decrease in customer reported issues can attest. More on that in a minute.

Prior to moving production of our famous Peerless and Peerless v-line brands of audio transducers to China, they were manufactured here in Denmark at our Karlslunde facility. When we moved out of Karlslunde and into our new offices in Taastrup last summer, we transferred Peerless manufacturing to Videbæk, where it would stay until PanYu was fully operational and able to handle a wide variety of product types beyond the tweeters that it was already famous for. Although the manufacturing team in Videbæk is highly skilled, manufacturing is inherently difficult, and the transition from one location to another caused some product and logistics issues that we did not adequately anticipate. To the extent that our customers suffered any inconvenience as a result of this, we are truly sorry and have taken all necessary measures—including the implementation of a company-wide Quality Commitment Program—to prevent this from ever occurring again.

Fortunately, improvements are happening at a rapid pace now, and I'm happy to report a significant down trend in what we refer to as "customer action reports," or CARS. CARS are how we track all customer issues with regards to products and logistics, and after the rough patch that occurred last year following the Karlslunde-to-Videbæk transition, the number of action reports we're receiving is dropping dramatically month to month. By the end of March 2006, CARS were down to levels not seen since the Peerless and Peerless v-line brands were manufactured in Karlslunde. As we transition these brands now from Videbæk to PanYu, we are much better equipped to make this transition as seamless and easy as possible, and the lower CARS rates are indication that we are succeeding.

www.tymphany.com schreef:

As DST, we built our reputation on being the company to work with when you wanted the best sound, and over the years, our Peerless, Vifa and ScanSpeak brands have been selected by the most discerning audio brands in the world—companies that truly define the high-end of the audio market. Some of our established customers have expressed concern that Tymphany's Denmark operations will eventually fade into the horizon, overtaken by the U.S. and China. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Tymphany Denmark is—without question—an indispensable part of Tymphany's global organization. Over the course of decades, we have accumulated a unique technical expertise which is now a cornerstone of Tymphany's differentiation in the market. In fact, Danish acoustical talents are being put to work on the Tymphany Linear Array Transducer (LAT), originally developed by Tymphany in its Cupertino, California lab. Product development has since become a multinational effort, and in fact, our Videbæk center has several new engineering resources working to develop prototype Tymphany LAT subwoofers into customer-specific products. So there's a nice synergy between our engineering teams, and even a healthy co-dependency that is accelerating the pace of innovation across all product lines.

In addition to our technological contributions to the business, Tymphany Denmark has worked over many decades to build positive and lasting relationships with Peerless, Vifa and ScanSpeak customers, and we remain uniquely qualified to continue to serve these customers. We have been expanding our account management capability, in fact, to continue the dialogue with Tymphany's customers in Europe and the rest of the world, and to ensure that we maintain these very close relationships even as we expand our reach into new markets and applications.

jeroen_d schreef:

Wat je nu binnen hebt gekregen is al geproduceerd in China. Als je daar tevreden over bent, geen reden om je zorgen te maken.

deepspace schreef:

Gaat ScanSpeak nu ook over op chineese productie?

Wowly schreef:

Misschien ander arbeidsethos? De meeste noorderlingen zijn niet gebrand op half werk, ze scheppen er veel eer in. Kijk maar naar jezelf, jij bent ook heel erg gedreven om goed werk af te leveren. Als je die campussen ziet waar productie wordt gedraaid in china, kan ik me niet zo heel erg goed voorstellen dat daar erg veel eer in werk wordt geschept. Maar goed, dat is een persoonlijke mening.

Ik hoop dat ze wel goede qc hebben idd.

Wowly

We willen ze niks betalen, maar verwachten wel dat ze topkwaliteit leveren

Roland schreef:

Het is alleen erg lastig te achterhalen hoe een bedrijf zich in china gedraagt. Ik zou het wel willen weten, kinderarbeid en modern lijfeigenschap ben ik niet zon fan van.

Maar er komt vanzelf een tijd dat al ons geld daar naar toe is gestroomd en dat we zelf voor een paar armzalige euro's 12 uur per dag 364 dagen per jaar aan het werk gaan in een stinkende warme fabriek.

Roland schreef:

Maar er komt vanzelf een tijd dat al ons geld daar naar toe is gestroomd en dat we zelf voor een paar armzalige euro's 12 uur per dag 364 dagen per jaar aan het werk gaan in een stinkende warme fabriek.

Hoezo? We hebben toch al die jaren ontzettend veel geld gestoken in goed onderwijs.

markje schreef:

Dus ja, Peerless kan willen wat ie wil en als alles door de kwaliteitseisen heenkomt, wil dat niet zeggen dat die units na 5 jaar gebruik ook nog heel zijn.

Roland schreef:

Ik ga er er ook vanuit dat ze in de peerless fabriek in china niet naar de locale bouwmarkt lopen als de lijm op is. Dat zal toch door Peerless Denemarken geleverd worden of in ieder geval gespecificeerd. Het lijkt me een onderdeel van het hele productie proces.