Manufacturer's Corner

[Lusker]

Now.. what's next??

Answer...

There will be a special addition called the "Manufacturer's Corner".

The premise...

Each participating manufacturer will own a sub form. Within their sub forum will contain child forms. Each of the child forms will have dedicated titles such as equipment specs or equipment wiring diagrams or service bulletins and maybe even R&D and their product line. There will be a contact us page with sales and technician phone numbers and email addresses for a quick response to the HTalk Professional Membership.

Example

Manufacturer's Corner



Best in Class Manufacturer (Sub forum)


Contact us (Child forum)
Product lines (Child forum)
Equipment Specifications (Child forum)
Service Bulletins (Child forum)
On the Horizon R&D (Child forum)
Open Discussion (Child forum)


Within these child forums will contain either text or a URL to a private website built for the certified HTalk professional membership for the information you seek. We are also thinking about an open discussion thread where you can ask the Tech Support guys questions and they can answer you on the site directly.

This is in the works now. We are setting up the trial forums and speaking with several Manufacturer's now who seem to be receptive and excited to see we are taking this initiative.

Keep your fingers crossed.. the EF took two years, maybe we can fill up the Manufacture's Corner in short order.

[Noel Murdough]

Very interesting.

Noel

[deadair]

Looking forward to it. Will be helpful in the field

[scottsacavsfan]

Best in Class Manufacturer (Sub forum)
a.Contact us (Child forum)
b.Product lines (Child forum)
c.Equipment Specifications (Child forum)
d.Service Bulletins (Child forum)
e.On the Horizon R&D (Child forum)
f.Open Discussion (Child forum)
G.Really good coupons forum:cool:

[joemach]

This is a great idea. Hopefully we can get a few hard to contact manufactures to participate and get answers to some of our questions.

[ACFIXR]

Excellent idea! That way we can get out of the forth coming "annual subscription fee's"

[calhvac]

So by 'owning' the sub-forum they would be able to regulate discussions, or would it be moderated by current moderators?

If so, could we have a section where technicians/contractors could discuss possible design flaws or standard defects discovered in the field?

[TMH58]

This is a great idea. Hopefully we can get a few hard to contact manufactures to participate and get answers to some of our questions.


Good luck with that.

[dodge]

looking for:)ward to this section,how about a tenative date

[Lone Eagle]

this sounds great, thanks for all the E.F. committee's hard work. NOW lets Get IT ON

[dandyme]

hope mfg feel compelled to join

some want a gonad and one arm for info now

[69Stang]

This would be awesome! If you need I can try to make a marketing type brochure for manufacturers telling them how HVAC-Talk members would be more likely to shop from them etc.

[docholiday]

The problem I see, is that mfg's like to know who they are giving information to. Additionally, staffing someone full time to make sure that some outside site is keeping up to date information is hardly worth it. Most mfg's already have a contractor support site of some sort that simply require they sign up for it. (Davenet, HVAC-Partners, Rheemote, etc.)

There are plenty of people who work for mfg's that participate in HVAC talk. They may just not blab to the world who they are because sitting at a computer and answering every question from 382,000 technicians is not their job. Generally speaking the local distributor or rep is supposed to support his customers.

It sounds good in theory but what many techs really want is someone sitting there waiting for them to call. Good luck getting that included in today's competitive pricing.

Basic principals of electricity, theory, refrigeration, troubleshooting is the responsibility of the technician. As a consumer, you would like to think that is the case rather than paying a guy $80 - $120 an hour to call someone for help all the time.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of techs who can handle a personal relationship with a mfg. It just cant be up to an outside site to choose who those people are.