Sujet : Domestic sources De : blockedofcourse (at) *nospam* foo.invalid (Don Y) Groupes :sci.electronics.design Date : 08. Nov 2024, 01:09:02 Autres entêtes Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID :<vgjkr6$2sarr$2@dont-email.me> User-Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2
An old client dropped me a line (I have no idea how he managed to find valid contact information! I will have to look into that...) He was concerned over the possibility of "import duties" levied on the components in one of the devices Id designed for him. To be honest, I've never looked at WHERE a component was sourced as part of the selection process. <frown> My advice to him was essentially that of how one would handle an obsolete component: - redesign the hardware with necessary substitutions - port the software to accommodate any necessary changes - update production documents Porting the software is, by far, the easiest and shortest effort (as it was designed and written with this as a goal). Updating production documents/procedures should be a no-brainer. And, the hardware redesign should be easy -- EXCEPT for the added task of identifying component sources (country of origin). I figure 3 man months for the whole exercise -- assuming domestic sources are available for all components. So, it should be relatively easy to put a price tag on that effort -- even if taken in anticipation of a future problem. Are folks undertaking such analysis? Or, waiting to see what ACTUALLY happens? (Politicians are renowned for making all sorts of claims and not following through -- has anyone seen that check from Mexico for the wall?)