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On Sunday 24 May 2015 12:32:40 Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: |
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> > > What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo |
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> > > manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on |
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> > > the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process, |
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> > > we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever |
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> > > breaks. |
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> > Permit me a little quibble: we're not doing QA but QC (control). Not at |
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> > all |
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> > the same thing. QA is defined in the ISO9000 series of international |
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> > standards. |
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> You're absolutely right of course: I meant, but didn't express it so, that |
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> we have to compensate for lack of adequate QA and poor QC. However, |
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> thinking about it, I am probably wrong altogether. Said manufacturers may |
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> have both processes in place, but implemented with comparatively low |
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> acceptance thresholds for what we expect. Ahh! The joys of globalisation. |
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> :-( |
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Oh, well - thanks for not taking offence! |
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Rgds |
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Peter |