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Old 03-13-2007, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Nicole
You probably mixed this up with the French car makers. But you'd be surprised how high their quality standards have become in recent years.
oh I wish I would have kept the article from FT. Maybe they did say Turkish immigrants but at any rate FT said the educational levels of the average Finish assembly line worker was higher than his German counter part in trying to explain why the Valmet Boxsters have had some of the lowest number of problems reported by Consumer Reports tracking. Probably good news for the Cayman owners.
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Originally Posted by BGLeduc
When I got me '06 CS in January, there was a one page sheet of paper in the glove box from Valmet.....not being fluent in Finn, I have no clue, but I am guessing it is some sort of build sheet.

Brian

We have several Rennlisters in Finland, if you scan and post it perhaps someone will translate?



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Education levels = standardized test scores, but not much measureable in real life...

Motivated, happy, trained, empowered, and valued workers = high build quality, high efficiency, and continuous improvement of both.
Old 03-13-2007, 07:50 PM
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Hope this is readable...

This is the sheet that was in my glove box.

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Old 03-13-2007, 10:58 PM
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So, how do you pronounce "Uusikaupunki" anyway???

Old 03-15-2007, 03:49 PM
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Its parts collection note for dash parts. If no one else does it, I can translate it later.
Old 03-15-2007, 03:56 PM
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Thanks Erkka!

So someone collected all the parts, set the list in the glovebox, assembled the dash, put the dash in BGLeduc's CS, and off it went!
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Here's part of that list translated. Some odd short terms which does not tell anything for somebody who is not actually putting these parts together.



BTW. most of the Finnish Rennlisters are going to visit Valmet factory in April

Perhaps we can meet mrs Mirja Ääritalo who is the employee printed on that list. Quite many ladys building these cars in Uusikaupunki (Newtown in english)

I have also visited Stuttgart plant, and very few of the employee are emmigrants, most workers are german.

What comes to education level in Finland, it's ranked as a highest level in the world. Most people get nowadays Unversity degree. Good education level is a must for a country which have so little population; just a little bit over 5 million. If i can remeber correctly over 80% of our population gets University level degree. Even all factory workers have at least Collage education.
Education is free for every Finn, also in the University.
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Great stuff, Olli!

Do give Mrs. Ääritalo my regards....they do build a nice car there!:-)

Brian



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