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salawat 4y ago
Doesn't change my point. In fact, reinforces it. You must check. How do you know the device is calibrated? Is the sensor you're relying on still trust worthy? What happens when your fancy Bluetooth sensor breaks, and you've forgotten how to measure things the old fashioned way? Now I'm glad Boeing is taking inspiration from Toyota; but American companies tend to lose sight of a key part of the teachings of Demmings: just do it right the first time is wrong. You must build your business around the assumption it will be wrong, (because it always will be), and generate data to be reviewed that can be acted upon to improve processes. Besides which; remember, the real objective there is cost savings by Quality department downsizing, coupled with remaining Quality Inspector upskilling, which comes with increased cognitive overhead for the inspector, which will manifest in a lower detection rate because you can only be in so many places at once. T. Decade-on Quality Assurance guy/builder of testing departments. Companies hate us because we're the one group in the building who can objectively measure how badly everything sucks; yet you can't let up, no matter how badly you're treated because once you stop looking, someone down the line'll pay for it. And that's just not Quality.

salawat 4y ago

Doesn't change my point. In fact, reinforces it. You must check. How do you know the device is calibrated? Is the sensor you're relying on still trust worthy? What happens when your fancy Bluetooth sensor breaks, and you've forgotten how to measure things the old fashioned way? Now I'm glad Boeing is taking inspiration from Toyota; but American companies tend to lose sight of a key part of the teachings of Demmings: just do it right the first time is wrong. You must build your business around the assumption it will be wrong, (because it always will be), and generate data to be reviewed that can be acted upon to improve processes. Besides which; remember, the real objective there is cost savings by Quality department downsizing, coupled with remaining Quality Inspector upskilling, which comes with increased cognitive overhead for the inspector, which will manifest in a lower detection rate because you can only be in so many places at once. T. Decade-on Quality Assurance guy/builder of testing departments. Companies hate us because we're the one group in the building who can objectively measure how badly everything sucks; yet you can't let up, no matter how badly you're treated because once you stop looking, someone down the line'll pay for it. And that's just not Quality.