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In an industry where you are supposed to use QA and one of the most basic things is your material then it’s only common sense that you would randomly batch test
by EasyMark 2y ago
In an industry where you are supposed to use QA and one of the most basic things is your material then it’s only common sense that you would randomly batch test the metallurgy on a supposed titanium shipment when it takes minutes to hours to check and “trust but verify” should be the basic SOP. I’m sure the details will come out. It’s a batch of 10 versus 10000 “widgets”. I’m not saying that’s what happened but if it becomes clear they skip critical QA tests like this then they are criminally negligent.
- lazide 2y agoIt's easy to say criminally negligent, but near as I can tell - good luck pinning any of that on Boeing or a subsidiaries executive somewhere. Because yes, that would make sense. However, even if everything is perfect it’s expensive (and not just because you broke x percent of the product). If the products have flaws they aren’t supposed to, it’s also even more expensive. At least in the short term. And often embarrassing. So depending on the incentives and short term nature of the person deciding, there are a lot of incentives to not look too hard.
- LargeWu 2y ago"So depending on the incentives and short term nature of the person deciding, there are a lot of incentives to not look too hard." This gets at what has been reported as the fundamental problem at Boeing: It used to have a safety culture, when it was run by engineers. Now it's run by finance people, and it has a short-term profit culture. Instead of asking "will this plane be safe to operate for the next 30 years" it becomes "will this plane be slightly more profitable to sell next quarter". This is a major problem where safety is paramount.