Most of the employees are poorly trained, if anyone bothers to take the time to train them at all. Employees are also exposed to hazardous metals, like beryllium, without notification or training on how to properly handle the material.
Most of the equipment is poorly maintained, if at all. The spectrometer hasn't been calibrated in ages, and often gives readings which are known to be inaccurate.
Company policy is to only accurately check the first batch of parts to make sure that they are within specs. After that, if there are no obvious flaws to the parts, they are shipped regardless of how far out of spec they might be. Quite often the parts are made out of incorrect materials or wildly out of spec, and this is known by management before the parts are shipped. Parts have also been welded up, with the welds concealed, even though the specs specifically state that the parts may NOT be welded. Parts returned as defective by customers, which are labelled as completely unusable due to material defects are reworked and returned to the customer as totally "new" parts, even though the customer's specifications clearly state that this may NOT be done.
Parts are not stored in the facility in any organized manner, and defective/incorrect parts are often mixed in with good parts by accident. Management is completely unable to give an accurate estimate of how long it will take to produce parts, and is unwilling to make the efforts needed to streamline their operation in order for this to be possible.
Mission critical parts for military components are treated the same, or worse than non-military parts.in several cases, the military has complained to management that the parts have field in the field, and management has NOT bothered to correct the issues, but continues to send parts out with the same defects.
0 comments