Posted on 11/08/2021 5:29:01 PM PST by ameribbean expat
As a Mfg. engineer with over 30 years in the industry I guarantee you that she is the scapegoat for a higher up manager and/or executive. This has unfortunately become standard industry practice in our corrupt society.
She’s from Seattle so it’s a good bet.
See above. An alloy that has the proper strength for a submarine hull does not exhibit brittle fracture at minus 100 F. It has nothing to do with minus 100 F and everything to do with validating the correct metallurgy of the steel.
The expense for producing work to spec could be so onerous as to make it tempting to fudge. So, yeah, “Let’s see if we can get away with shipping this.” The question is, what kind of quality control was on the receiving end?
I spent a year (2019) as a machine operator lapping parts to milspec at $13.25 per hour. It was readily apparent that you do not fudge when measuring to the 4th decimal and signing off. The stress, noise, and kerosene wash was enough to make me bail in haste, not to mention the pay.
“With friend like Elaine…”
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You means with friends like our Department of Justice:
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“However, the Justice Department said it would recommend a prison term at the low end of whatever the court determines is the standard sentencing range in her case.”
Disgusting.
Thanks. Doing a little digging myself ...
“Navy Has ‘Mitigated’ Risk of Suspect Steel From Company in Federal Fraud Case”
By: Sam LaGrone
June 19, 2020 11:33 AM
Bill Whittle makes the point succinctly on this exact thing in one of his videos:
Sure. We have buildings collapse too, like the Champlain Towers South in Florida recently.
The significance is that a building collapse here in the USA killing a hundred people is a national shame. It was on all the networks, night after night. The country, for a period of time, was entirely focused on it, and there are ongoing investigations and such.
In China, they have so many building collapses they barely even make the news over there. Part of it may be that a majority of buildings that collapse don’t have anybody in them. They have had 37 bridge collapses in China in the past five years.
But you get the point. There is indeed a difference.
Is this one of those AA “women and minority owned” preferred contractors?
Well, a self-prescribed standard of “stupid” seems to be a reasonable motivator, but not good enough in this case.
Maybe she is a Communist.
Exactly. The materials engineers that designed the test specifications wanted to have the test parameters such that they could extrapolate the fatigue lifecycle of the casting. These parts are subject to repeated cycling stresses similar to those an airliner sees in repeated pressurization cycling.
Thomas' conduct came to light in 2017, when a metallurgist being groomed to replace her noticed suspicious test results and alerted their company, Kansas City-based Bradken Inc., which acquired the foundry in 2008.For crying out loud, didn't the Navy have the metallurgical lab periodically (annually) quality control audited?!? This is standard practice for accredited analytical chemistry labs in environment and industry. One of the requirements is the continuing evidence of internal review of data, so that no one person can generate and report results without the data being reviewed by someone else for correctness.
Bradken fired Thomas and initially disclosed its findings to the Navy, but then wrongfully suggested that the discrepancies were not the result of fraud. That hindered the Navy’s investigation into the scope of the problem as well as its efforts to remediate the risks to its sailors, prosecutors said.
In June 2020, the company agreed to pay $10.9 million in a deferred-prosecution agreement.
“From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests”
32 YEARS!! Is it really THAT HARD for a customer to audit what a supplier claims once in a while? Bitch should have been dispatched before she could legally buy a beer.
“However, the Justice Department said it would recommend a prison term at the low end of whatever the court determines is the standard sentencing range in her case.”
Treacherous bastards. Hanging is too good for her.
laying welding rod in the seams
That’s called “Texas TIG”.
is there some reason this old cow’s work isn’t/wasn’t audited now and again???
During WWII the United States performed a nearly incomprehensible feat of industrial engineering with the Liberty Ship program. Staggering. But they did have a flaw, and they found the via a combination of badly manufactured steel, poor welding techniques, and poor intrinsic design caused cracks to occur which then progressed to catstrophic failure. I believe the very first Liberty Ship produced broke in half while she was tied up.
It is also thought that same defect (or at least the roots of it) were responsible for two Liberty Ships converted to tankers off the coast of Chatham Massachusetts during a NorEaster in 1952 that was popularized in a recent movie “The Finest Hours”. (I have been to Wellfleet, MA where they have the Coast Guard rescue boat restored, and it is hard to fathom those guys doing what they did)
Affirmative action?
This is in a sense treason. Why isn’t she being executed?
Have you read about the ships that Henry Kaiser put together during the war? Very interesting.
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