On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:51:55 +0000, alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:

> > I used to work for a manufacturer of some well heard of medical devices=
..
> > Whilst each production run required the checking off of components agai=
nst the
> > customers' BOM (the customer normally supplied the parts), if component=
s had been
> > mixed up or the production was under time pressure, then the production=
 manager
> > would insist everything went ahead, knowing that authorisation for subs=
titution 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 chec=
ks on
> > delivery would send all boards back to be scrapped and to be started ag=
ain.=20
>=20
> Yep, the old 'we don't have time to do it properly the first time, but we=
 do have time to do it again' ...

....which is a close relative of "I don't want it good, I want it Tuesday!" =
 :-)

Why is it that so many people in a position to control the way things are d=
one, seem to excel at Missing The Point?

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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