Pain in the ass Chinese

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Parts I designed in April, that they built in May, that were shown to our customers in June now require a mold redesign to make them run better on the molding machine.
I understand them wanting to increase yield and such, but October is when we’re going to market with this product. They had months to warn us they wanted to make changes.
Now I’m rifling through the engineering closet trying to find enough parts to make the orders we promised. The good news is we didn’t promise much. The bad news is I don’t have many parts.

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I just got an email from the test lab that say another product from China we just sent to be life tested has failed miserably. It lasted less than 1/4 of the amount specified.
That’s bad enough, but this is their 5th attempt to get it right. The prototype works. The production doesn’t.

Of course 600 domestic ones just failed at a customer site too, so what does that say?