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Old 3rd Jun 2019, 22:53
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A repost after the swat visit.

She said that the team's mission was to look at "cost issues" regarding Ducommun's accounting and tools and that she does not know how the whistle-blowers on the team drew the conclusion that the parts were flawed. She said assessing quality was outside their area of expertise.
Perhaps seeing the ring frames being worked on a table was a good indicator that the stipulated 1/3000" accuracy was going to be a tad out. A tad it seems is equal to n hammer blows upon installation.

Flat tables are an extremely expensive investment. I suppose the blanket evened things up a bit.

I thought the whistleblowers seemed intelligent, erudite and driven. One, a third generation Boeing employee, would surely not want to harm the company if possible.
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