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The issue is not necessarily quality issues in production.
"The manufacturing process uses laser measurement to precisely align the barrel sections and to predict the size of any shims needed. Kowal said the flaw arose when “software notification designed to alert when a shim exceeded the maximum thickness per engineering specifications was not being used.”
From:
https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...7-dreamliners/
In my book that's the very definition of a quality issue...