On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote:
> > What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo
> > manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on
> > the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process,
> > we are left doing QA ourselves or keeping both pieces of whatever
> > breaks.
> 
> Permit me a little quibble: we're not doing QA but QC (control). Not at all
> the same thing. QA is defined in the ISO9000 series of international
> standards.

You're absolutely right of course:  I meant, but didn't express it so, that we 
have to compensate for lack of adequate QA and poor QC.  However, thinking 
about it, I am probably wrong altogether.  Said manufacturers may have both 
processes in place, but implemented with comparatively low acceptance 
thresholds for what we expect.  Ahh!  The joys of globalisation.  :-(

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Regards,
Mick