What is the most defective industrial product in modern times?
by admin on Apr.18, 2010, under Engineering
A) Building, Bridges, Levees, Automobile and Vehicle Frames
B) Combustion Engines
C) Bicycles
D) Computers
E) Telephones
F) Televisions
G) Power Tools
H) Farming Equipment
I) Sewing Machines
J) Movie Cameras
K) Furniture
L) Video Games
M) Music Ipods, Stereos, etc.
This question is about product durability, not about who makes it or uses it. It is about how well does the product perform, how well does it hold up under heavy usage or harsh conditions.
I would have placed this question in the category of ‘Inventions’, if it was included in Answers. I am a historian on inventions, as a pasttime, and like to discuss which ones are better, still in use, creating additional technologies, and so on. Hope this helps in how to answer the question. the eggster.
Alan, good answer, but not exactly what I’m looking for. I agree with you about furniture getting cheaper and watered down with quick-assembly designs.
I’m more interested in structure frames posing as shelters in our lives. I grant you that when hurricane Katrina wiped out all those homes and commercial buildings in 2005, that there was more numbers of furniture pieces that were destroyed, too!
As a new way to protect building frames has been developed and is in an awareness campaign, currently, I’m trying to get a feel for who and how many people consider having wind-proof homes and collision-proof cars is a good thing. This means that we all have to recognize that there is a problem with current building and car frames, and that we want a better product from the manufacturerers.
In this way, when the product developer of these new systems says that his developed by-product has an element of improvement, readers of the product literature has more meaning.
Edit last word (meaning) in previous added detail to: understanding.
Ron
April 19th, 2010 on 10:59 pm
Alan
I would suggest it depends who makes it
Levees < what are those? you must be in that little corner of the world they call USA
April 23rd, 2010 on 8:53 am
Eva
Furniture. Compare the furniture of the past (real wood, mortise & tenon and dovetail joinery) with today’s ready-to-assemble garbage that falls apart the first time you try to move it. You can’t even get good furniture at “custom” prices today.