Re: Rigol caught with their pants down! (DS1052E Oscilloscope)

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From: Joerg
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:19

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krw wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:51:59 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> RFI-EMI-GUY wrote:
>>> Joerg wrote:

[...]

>>>> 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!
>>>
>> 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.
> 
> We've had stuff put onto reels.  There are companies that do this.  I
> doubt it would be worth it for capacitors, but maybe.  My bet is that
> it was the manufacturer doing the binning.


Yes, I am sure it was the mfg. Profit maximization :-)

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