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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Supply chain...

Peter Majtan said:
Amen to that!
There is a massive (and unnecessary) exodus of foreigners from Japan with most Japanese people scratching their heads why...
The last thing Japan needs now is to grind it's economy to hold...

Peter
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If I was living there, I would leave Japan too. This is not anyone has a right to judge over.
 
Any updates on you guys finding alternatives to manufacturing the parts from epics that were made in Japan! or still looking for suppliers?
 
Danny Murray said:
Any updates on you guys finding alternatives to manufacturing the parts from epics that were made in Japan! or still looking for suppliers?
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They have a very small supply...but at prices you'd think might be robbery. That's why the EPIC-M has been instated. I am sure we will be be the first to know when the X's are ready to be shipped. RED wants them out the door more than any single person might be.. ;)
 
Erwin Vanderhoydonks said:
And I don't think they are working on a RED Scarlet-M Fixed version ...
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I don't think so either. The market might not be too big for that regarding the higher price for manually produced parts. Why buy a ScarledFixed-M if it's almost the same price as a EPIC-S that will be out a few months/weeks/days later.
 
We have an entire team that spends their days sourcing parts.. Finding new vendors and literally bribing the old. It is a daily roller coaster, as the celebration of finding a new cache of parts in some corner of the world is short lived as those pools quickly become depleted by the army of logistic bounty hunters from the other companies big and small that swoop in like starving vultures.

Things are not going to get better overnight... but I promise you that we are putting up one hell of a good fight finding what we need for the Epic-M program until the factories come back online.
 
Too bad the Japanese factories that make these parts couldn't have just picked up and moved in their entirety to a different part of the country, or to another country altogether. Of course, this assumes that most of their workers and machinery made it through the tsunami and radiation.

What would have been even cooler would be hearing the RED engineers had figured out a way to make the Epic without those parts (unless they are sensor or ASIC critical ones.) As it has turned out, there seems to have been time to re-engineer the whole camera, and who knows, create a better and cheaper version.
 
Have there been any estimates as to when these factories might begin to come online line again? Not necessarily specific to Red but just in general?
 
Many factories in Japan are getting reliable power only 4 hours a day. Foreign companies relying on Japanese sourced parts are way down the totem pole on who gets what.
I'm hoping Korea can pick up the slack soon.
 
Tyler Bourns said:
Have there been any estimates as to when these factories might begin to come online line again? Not necessarily specific to Red but just in general?
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(Reuters May 20) – "Japanese camera and copier maker Canon Inc (7751.T) expects its quake-hit supply chain to recover more quickly than originally estimated, ... "

the rumor site speculated back to normal by end of June.
 
We have heard end of June also... I'll believe it when I see it.

Jim
 
Well it will be worth it in the end. Thanks to Red and Company to all their hard work to overcome a rough situation.
 
I think it is safe to say that when the EPIC goes into full production they will be very successful. The impact the EPIC M's are making is like nothing our industry has ever seen. Keep up the good work gentlemen and good luck getting through the supply crisis. You will get through it and we will all be laughing when you do.
 
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