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Skriven 2014-08-22 16:25:00 av Joe Delahaye (44180.fidonews)
  Kommentar till text 17754 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
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  By: Roy Witt to Joe Delahaye on Fri Aug 22 2014 12:07:58

 JD>> The testing etc, is done both inhouse, and by the customer.  Boeing
 JD>> et al have no desire to use substandard parts, and they wont.

 RW> When I worked there c1966, they wouldn't accept anything from an outside
 RW> vendor that wasn't inspected 100% by their own receiving inspection
 RW> department. Plus, the paperwork that came with every shipment had to
 RW> include the vendor's in-house inspection report. That also meant that if a
 RW> vendor presented an inspection report that didn't show the history of
 RW> everything found 'in-house', they would find that they needed to do more
 RW> and more thorough inspections on future articles submitted.

In a lot of cases, including our airforce contracts, there would be a rep from
the company purchasing, doing QC.  Nothing got shipped unless he signed the OK
on it.  As you said, after that inhouse testing was done on selected items, to
make double certain that they met specs


 RW> Later on in life c1979, I was a buyer for a large company in San Diego and
 RW> part of my job was to over-see 'receiving inpection' of all machined
 RW> parts. I had a vendor that I had worked for that was submitting what I
 RW> thought were nearly-scrap parts and I rejected a lot of his shop's work.

 RW> He and I eventually met face to face in our receiving department and when
 RW> he got the low-down on what was going on, his work soon became top notch.

I wonder if some lost their jobs over that <G>

 JD>> The airlines are another matter.  As you noted up above, they will
 JD>> delay inapections, or forget to incorporate upgrades as required to
 JD>> fix a problem found during a crash investigation.  Mostly the major
 JD>> airlines are OK, it will be the smaller ones from third world
 JD>> countries, and a lot of people fly on those aircraft.

 RW> Been there done that, no more no-maintainence Mexican airline flights
 RW> for me. That said, our own domestic airlines aren't that far from
 RW> sinking to the lows of Mexican airlines. My SIL tells me that
 RW> Continental (where he works in Houston) is improving its maintenance
 RW> program daily. Nothing is taken for granted and aircraft
 RW> inspections-repairs happen on a regular basis.

The poorer airlines are more apt to do things like that, just to keep their
heads above financial disaster in this age of expensive flying.
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