Japan steel maker falsifying data - supplier to Takata, Toyota, Subaru and Nissan

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
10/10/2017 at 04:37 • Filed to: Reuters, Takata, Nissan, Subaru, Toyota, Kobe, Japan, Steel

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only 4% of product affected.

DISCUSSION (5)

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > pip bip - choose Corrour
10/10/2017 at 06:58

Good to know the US automakers don’t corner the market on shady business shit. This sounds a lot like the vw and GM issues. Folks wanted to cover their asses and instead of doing the right thing and give the bad news to the higher ups, they cover up problems. It’s almost like that trait is not confined to national borders, and more a human kinda thing. Hmm, whodathunkit?

jimz > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
10/10/2017 at 07:28

Believe me, in many ways Japanese companies are worse. Look at how many Japanese parts suppliers have been investigated and busted for price fixing and other anti-trust violations in this country. The kinds of back room “gentlemen’s agreements” between competitors which are business as usual in Japan are illegal as all hell here.

Sweet Trav > jimz
10/10/2017 at 07:34

Having worked for a Japanese bearing supplier... I can attest to this. Do you know how many bearings we sold into the aftermarket off of customer owned tooling? (For those of you not in the industry, that is a huge No-No) Hell we even used customer consignment parts into the aftermarket.

So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky > jimz
10/10/2017 at 08:43

Just as bad in my experience was that they never updated engineering drawings because that would be seen as ‘loosing face’. So if something was wrong they would just go to the supplier and ask for a change on a handshake and there are no records of it. Then we would try to make the part at a different supplier, like say in the US, and it would be built perfectly to print but not work at all.

jimz > So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky
10/10/2017 at 08:54

and people wonder how things like Takata can happen.