Would you rather Naim set up manufacture abroad or farm out their manufacturing a 3rd party abroad? As an end user (we haven’t been customers for a long time already) I could support the former but it appears to be the latter.
I wonder how many among those who trump (no pun intended) “Made in the UK” or more specifically “Made in Salisbury” have previously complained about quality control issues in the very same place…
I am under the impression that rose-tinted beer goggles are in operation…
Who knows — the new production site might be more reliable… The proof of the pudding is in the eating; and skilled labour issues in the UK will remain a major issue for years to come….
Oh dear me. That wasn’t good news to read this morning. End of an era really.
How do you mean?
I’m sure the new workforce will be trained by Naim staff.
I’m being provocative, there’s been a few timely “new role” posts from folks in Naim in the last year or so, heading off to other pastures and well known audio brands.
I’m not privy to any insight or info beyond the speculation we’re all feeding off!
Yes, certainly. A possible question then: how do the semi-skilled (to be skilled by Naim trainers) in the UK compare to those in that mystery country?
There are a good number of European countries with a much richer tradition of vocational and manufacturing skills than the UK… That‘s a brute fact!
I’d be skeptical about that
An excellent move. Let’s hope Naim stuff will be the same price in Europe as it is in Britain… it might also make it a lot easier to have our equipment serviced.
Anyway, few of the people around me - I live abroad - care whether the stuff is made in England or not, let alone in Salisbury… Salisbury? Where’s that?
Are you saying the two are in some way connected? Or perhaps that a faulty product experience by a Naim owner means that they have to complain about Naim possibly changing some main product line to a production facility abroad?
Can’t see any connection myself
I assume that most people here are in the UK but there are other official Naim service centres in Europe who carry spare parts. While Naim was not able to service CDX2 / CDS3 for a while, during that whole time people were complaning on the forum, Lasa in Italy had a few spare mechs available and was able to service these cd players.
Can I safely assume that those members saying that any element of Naim manufacturing going anywhere other than our far superior nation is a bad move have absolutely nothing within their ownership that is either designed, made or assembled abroad?
Mr Dane said so post #4
Apparently , even Russia’s finest secret agents couldn’t find it.
Interesting but not unexpected. I was heavily involved with large scale manufacturing for over thirty years. Given the right inputs, layouts, flows and processes it was easily possible to increase output by 20%+ and, at the same time, reduce labour by almost 35%. I know it sounds impossible but in most manufacturing environments around 50% of activity is non-value adding, involving lots of moving stuff around, waiting for things, rework, errors, over processing and over producing etc. Remove as much of this as you can and the savings are immense. The other trap is to make large scale batches like Mr Henry Ford. Single piece flow is the way to go. Just make sure you have a very direct ordering and follow-up systems. With the availability of modern robots or (co-bots) the possibilities are endless!
I don’t think there is a difference between GBP and EUR pricing really? At least where I live the new boxes are more or less the same cost as in GBP.
The question is how much of the increasing issues with quality control are due to the amount of boards being made elsewhere? Seems a bit self fulfilling really.
Such a false choice. Some of the comments here are stunning.
Depending on the exchange rate i think that Naim stuff is the same price in the UK as is in Germany.
There are excellent service centres in Europe who can do most of the service. No need to get your stuff to the UK which is probably a nightmare of paperwork for dealers anyway after Brexit.