Looking at the initial comments, I think people need to read up on statistical quality control before commenting with strong language about the value of inspect

Looking at the initial comments, I think people need to read up on statistical quality control before commenting with strong language about the value of inspection. Some references. Shewart, Walter. Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product (1931) Deming, W Edwards. Out of the Crisis (1982) Taguchi, Genichi. Taguchi’s Quality Engineering Handbook (2005)\ Essentially, inspection is too late in the process to affect the overall quality. You do need to sample and study your products but your process should have the capability to produce good products without defects and you should not be relying on inspection to produce your output. There are exceptions, such as semiconductor chip lithography, where you are always working at the limits of the process. Nonetheless, there are many parts of the process that should not require 100% inspection. For example, wire bonding and packaging. In your aircraft, would you prefer to know that it was made by a process that produces parts and assemblies that are well within their specification, or that it had been made by a defective process but inspected 100%?