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JosephKK wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:51:59 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:
>>> Joerg wrote:
>>>> Joel Koltner wrote:
>>>>> "John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in 
>>>>> message
>>>>>> Sure. Life is risky. Given a product with 200 different parts, two of
>>>>>> which are overstressed, there's probably more risk that one of the 198
>>>>>> other parts will be EOL'd.
>>>>> Have you ever been caught in the situation of one of your 
>>>>> over-stressed parts being changed by the manufacturer in such a way 
>>>>> so as to render it unsuitable for your needs?
>>>>>
>>>> Happened to another engineer: Bought tons of 5% capacitors for 
>>>> production, went into Hilbert shifters. They always hand-picked the 1% 
>>>> parts out of this lot and used the rest for jelly-bean stuffing. One 
>>>> balmy summer day they found the first shipment that had a hole smack 
>>>> in the middle of the Gaussian tolerance curve. Obviously someone had 
>>>> detected a business opprotunity ... whoops.
>>>>
>>> Sure production ends on the part and then they look in the stockroom and 
>>> find a dusty box of parts, where did they come from? Probably someone 
>>> else hand picked parts and sent the rest back for restock!
>>>
> Not to be too picky, but why would production end on a profitable 5%
> parts line?
>> They couldn't be that brazen unless they'd have gone to great lengths 
>> such as re-belting them all. Because the good ones weren't all in front 
>> section.
> 
> Likely selected out before packaging.


He meant by a customer who then sent it back. If the manufacturer did 
that there would be no re-stocking process, they do it right off the 
conveyor belt.

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