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1 posted on 03/14/2018 2:41:33 PM PDT by Red Badger

Never enough time to do it right, but always plenty of time to try to fix it later.

But by then, your reputation may have suffered irreparable damage.

Not to even consider the added expense in terms of money.

2 posted on 03/14/2018 2:53:02 PM PDT by alloysteel (There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. There are no old, bold pilots.)

So, the company tests and retests and reworks in order to make sure things are gooid when delivered to a customer?

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............

That’s called a GOOD IDEA. Does this moron author think they should ship flawed vehicles and worry about it later?

4 posted on 03/14/2018 2:56:32 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)

It is important to understand the difference between Rework and Repair:

Rework is to take a nonconforming component and do the necessary additional machining or process adjustments to make it conform to engineering requirements. When done, a reworked component completely complies with the engineering design and specification requirements.

In this context, components that need to be reworked need process adjustments or improvements, at the source, so that conformance to engineering or specification yield increases. The goal would be six sigma (99.+%) compliance. High rework rates indicate process control problems.

Repair is to take a component that cannot conform to engineering design or specification and make the necessary changes to be usable in form, fit and function.

Repairs are expensive and indicate a more significant problem to be solved. Frequently, each repair requires specific analysis and processes to make the component usable. It indicates that the manufacturer has big QA problems or the engineering design is fundamentally un-producible.

5 posted on 03/14/2018 2:57:55 PM PDT by pfflier

6 posted on 03/14/2018 2:59:10 PM PDT by Spruce

The Fremont plant that Tesla is using used to be a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota. Sounds like Tesla is just following in the finest Detroit tradition.

7 posted on 03/14/2018 2:59:29 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)

P T Barnum would love this Musk fellow.

10 posted on 03/14/2018 3:40:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)

The remake of “Back to the Future” will feature an antique Tesla instead of a DeLorean, and like DeLorean, Tesla will have long been out of business.

13 posted on 03/14/2018 4:38:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)

Can’t cite a source, but when I was doing research on auto industry in the late 90’s I was surprised to learn that Mercedes-Benz had a significantly higher production-line defect rate than US or Japanese factories.

However, unlike the others, M-B extensively tested each car off the line and fixed any defects before shipping.

14 posted on 03/14/2018 5:54:30 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)

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