CCD battery recall incident
The world’s leading panasonic cga-s008e/1b battery business magazine – the United States, “Business Week” named its global “2006 Best / worst” list, in 2006 because of overheating or fire incidents court disaster on a global recall of nearly 10 million Sony lithium-ion batteries, of course, land “crowned” the worst product rankings. In 2006, Sony can be said Liunianbuli addition to the “Battery Door” event outside, CCD quality defects exist broke again, Sony plunged into a cycle of product quality.
Sony batteries: a global recall of the door face panasonic cga-s101a battery
Began in August 2006, Sony batteries prone to problems on a global scale fire stirred up, “recalled the wind.” August 14, 2006, Dell announced the recall of 410 in the United States may cause a fire laptop batteries, adding that production of defective Sony batteries. Sony, Dell acknowledged the company’s statement, saying that the battery is due to defective production process had been infiltrated by small metal fragments, causing the battery charging system in contact with the computer easier to overheat or short circuit and explosion. Since then, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Apple, IBM and Lenovo have also started to laptop computer batteries manufactured by Sony, recall order was issued panasonic cga-s303 battery.
Sony laptop battery problems broke out, triggering a domino effect, the world’s leading brand notebook computers were also not spared: Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Sharp and other brand notebook computers affected have issued a recall order . This is a global consumer electronics industry history, once the largest recall to date.
Sony recall a series of incidents suffered a lot of losses, in particular, shocked the industry, “laptop battery” recall the incident, so that Sony’s vitality.
Sony Corporation panasonic cgr-s003 battery (October 26, 2006) released the financial report shows that a large number of recalled batteries and PlayStation 3 (PS3) delayed the listing under the double blow, the first half of fiscal 2006 (from April to September), the company Operating profit plunged 90.9% year on year, 62.2 billion yen (one U.S. dollars approximately ¥ 119). Showed a profit, Sony Group’s production of LCD TVs and digital cameras sales strong. Affected by the first half of this fiscal year, Sony’s sales revenue grew by about 10%, or about 3.6 trillion yen.
Previously, the company’s fiscal year 2006 net profit forecast will be lowered 35 percent to 800 billion yen. At the same time also reduced dell inspiron 2600 battery operating profit, down 78% to 500 billion yen, but sales are expected to remain unchanged at 8.23 trillion yen.
Quarterly financial report showed the second quarter of this fiscal year, its electronics division achieved sales of 1.38 trillion yen, an increase of 12%; but operating profit dropped 71%. On the one hand due to laptop battery recall plan would lead to ¥ 51,000,000,000 ( dell inspiron 2650 battery about 429 million U.S. dollars) in expenditures, while Sony announced a global recall of more than 960 million batteries, resulting in the market share continued to decline.