[AT] Was Tractor hauler product--now foreign parts

[Roy Morgan]

On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:21 AM, John Hall wrote:...
> Those same parts are now coming to the US with a 40% scrap rate.  
> Once you
> figure in delayed shipping of completed product and worry about what  
> the
> inspectors did not find that will fail once in service,

In the 70's I worked at a company that (still) makes the world's best  
automatic test equipment for the electronics industry.  One hundred  
percent of all parts were tested before they were available for  
manufacturing.  There were two reasons:

1) The company MADE automatic test equipment for testing parts, and so  
it was fairly easy to do it.

2) more importantly, it cost WAY more to fix a few bad parts in  
completed systems than it did to thoroughly test *all* incoming parts.

Roy

Roy Morgan
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