> I used to work for a manufacturer of some well heard of medical devices.
> Whilst each production run required the checking off of components agains=
t the
> customers' BOM (the customer normally supplied the parts), if components =
had been
> mixed up or the production was under time pressure, then the production m=
anager
> would insist everything went ahead, knowing that authorisation for substi=
tution or
> procedure would add days to production start and of course cost money, so=
 it would
> go ahead. Two weeks later the customer having performed compliance checks=
 on
> delivery would send all boards back to be scrapped and to be started agai=
n.=20

Yep, the old 'we don't have time to do it properly the first time, but we d=
o have time to do it again' ...

Seen it happen rather too often ...


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