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<blockquote data-quote="rhart" data-source="post: 4095629" data-attributes="member: 16596"><p>My company was bought by Canadian company and their attitude about 'quality' was straight out of the 1950's (quality bad? Blame the quality manager!). In the Arkansas plant's morning meeting the (Canadian) Plant Manager noticed that he couldn't hear the alarms from the ultrasonic (UT) inspection units so he asked the production manager what line speed he was welding pipe at. Then he asked about quality off the UT systems. When he was told UT quality was better than 99% good, he told the production guy to double welding speed while looking sideways at me (QC Manager) knowing I had no power to stop him under the new management. I just said "sometimes in order to go fast you have to go slow" but he just sneered.</p><p>Shortly thereafter you could hear a constant stream of 'beeps' as the UT systems went off multiple times on each pipe. About an hour or so later the entire pipe mill was shut down due to being backed up for pipes needing to be 'proved up' and dispositioned.</p><p>The next month my boss (corporate) is calling me to ask about all the downtime charged to "waiting on inspection" (inferring Quality dept. is at fault). I explained exactly what happened and he couldn't believe it. I never heard another word about it (I assume he looked at the second-by-second pipe mill records and saw that I was telling the truth).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rhart, post: 4095629, member: 16596"] My company was bought by Canadian company and their attitude about 'quality' was straight out of the 1950's (quality bad? Blame the quality manager!). In the Arkansas plant's morning meeting the (Canadian) Plant Manager noticed that he couldn't hear the alarms from the ultrasonic (UT) inspection units so he asked the production manager what line speed he was welding pipe at. Then he asked about quality off the UT systems. When he was told UT quality was better than 99% good, he told the production guy to double welding speed while looking sideways at me (QC Manager) knowing I had no power to stop him under the new management. I just said "sometimes in order to go fast you have to go slow" but he just sneered. Shortly thereafter you could hear a constant stream of 'beeps' as the UT systems went off multiple times on each pipe. About an hour or so later the entire pipe mill was shut down due to being backed up for pipes needing to be 'proved up' and dispositioned. The next month my boss (corporate) is calling me to ask about all the downtime charged to "waiting on inspection" (inferring Quality dept. is at fault). I explained exactly what happened and he couldn't believe it. I never heard another word about it (I assume he looked at the second-by-second pipe mill records and saw that I was telling the truth). [/QUOTE]
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