I like how they use a common dollar sign so that it looks like the KoblenSchmidt logo at first glance, pretty sneaky and underhanded but probably not anything KS can do about it.
I might head over to China in 2017 to try to put eyeballs on factories, etc. but the officially sanctioned events just put buyers in basically a city of salesmen.
I might find new vendors but I am not sure I would really learn anything.
Would be an interesting trip. Spent many years traveling to "manufacturing" facilities over (both) seas selling & supporting Cad/Cam and later software development tools to build Cad/Cam/Graphics systems along with ..ahem.."consulting" on how best to integrate the higher technology into their business models ...especially in the "pacific rim"..
Was an eye opening experience to say the least. Filled a couple of passports with stamps. And at one point or another had to train folks from how to add and subtract fractions (those in the decimal world) to how to programs five axis machine tools to cut plastic injection molds, from how to build a user interface, to link and compile DLL's with their c++ development environment, to deciding which spline algorithm best models the shapes important to them within the b-rep modeler chosen as their modeling system environment. Just an old man...
The capability is more than there at this point to make pretty much anything. Has been for a while. I think folks might be surprised at how much has been moved from "traditional" places to the pacific rim...without being specific. AND some of those places with a little guidance can, and I suspect will; over time put a "dent" in the traditional thinking....
One thing I learned pretty quickly as a young man in that role, is there is NO shortage of very smart, creative, and talented folks in this world.