My experience is that when people buy off their own work it is prone to
error.  If they misinterpret the drawings during set-up they will probably
do the same during inspection.  You should consider the time spent as an
investment that reduces the overall schedule time by catching mistakes
early.  If you have never found any mistakes at first article inspection
you probably owe several people a commendation or "employees of the month"
award.  Dave

At 08:53 AM 10/8/2002, Poh Kong Hui wrote:
>Hi Technetters,
>
>I would to share some experience with you all.
>
>I  have been working for 5 companies. I realize that every
>company that I worked for, has a buy-off system; so called
>the first article buy-off before releasing the either a SMT or
>wave soldering line for mass production.
>
>I am rather curious why the people who are managing the
>lines cannot perform their own self check, but rather
>depends upon someone to check their work and to ensure
>they loaded the right to the machine or to the boards.
>
>I would like to hear your opinion about this system as I find it
>rather stupid and it is wasting time.
>
>Poh
>
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