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To: Sully- who wrote (12475)	4/23/2004 12:28:48 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 110194

Fuel costs more for Japanese cars? ;) BTW, I'm originally from Detroit. I wrote quite a bit of software for quality control - quite a bit of firware used for online gauging and robotics, as well as SQC and variation analysis software. Worst plant horror stories: - Observed workers on a manual gauging station. Two workers used a manual fixture to measure front door window openings. The door would come down the line laying flat. The two workers, on opposite sides of the line, would lower the fixture into the window opening (it was on bungee cords). It was an easy test to interpret - either the fixture fit into the opening (pass) or it did not (fail). Even this was too much work for them. Most of the doors passed by with a cursory dip of the fixture, giving the appearance to a distant observer that they actually did what they were supposed to do. But no attempt was actually made to fit the fixture into the opening, so it's anybody's guess if the doors passed the test or not... (This is why we were automating gauging...) - I love the way they dealt with "minor" body defects. They have a special tool for this. It's called a "B.F. Hammer".