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Skriven 2014-08-24 14:17:34 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 17755 av Joe Delahaye (44180.fidonews)
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Greetings Joe!

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

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

Exactly.

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

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

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

I dunno about that, but was glad to see the quality of his work get
better. I was to the point of doubting myself when his parts came into the
area. Was I being too hard on him or was that expected of me? Was I
supposed to allow some of his stuff to pass or was I expected do a
dilligent job of it and reject that which didn't meet specs? I was sure
that I wasn't mature enough to go there, but I did what I expected any QC
man was supposed to do.

 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
 RW>> flights for me. That said, our own domestic airlines aren't that far
 RW>> from 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.

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

I guess so. Having built them and having flown on them, I'm no fan of
flying with someone else at the helm. Especially if the airline has little
or no maintenence program to speak of.


    Have a day!

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