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<blockquote data-quote="ClassicBiker" data-source="post: 140556" data-attributes="member: 1632"><p>Vibrac, to answer your question. No, I'm afraid bean counters are a little like the mythical hydra, as soon as you knock one off, two more appear. I can remember 30 years back when work on contract to Daimler/Chrysler as a dimensional control engineer doing analysis of body in white tolerance on the mini van. Management, all bean counters, said there would be no new, tooling, no new processes. The new vehicle would use the same locators in the assembly tooling, the assembly process would be the same and done on the same line as the old product. We were then told they expected "Toyota level quality", they never quantified what that was, from the new vehicle.</p><p>My manager's manager wanted to know how long it would take to do a full body analysis of the new vehicle. I told him about 30 minutes. As all I needed to do was change the names on the files from the old product to the new. Same locators, same tools, same results. He didn't understand what I was driving at.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClassicBiker, post: 140556, member: 1632"] Vibrac, to answer your question. No, I'm afraid bean counters are a little like the mythical hydra, as soon as you knock one off, two more appear. I can remember 30 years back when work on contract to Daimler/Chrysler as a dimensional control engineer doing analysis of body in white tolerance on the mini van. Management, all bean counters, said there would be no new, tooling, no new processes. The new vehicle would use the same locators in the assembly tooling, the assembly process would be the same and done on the same line as the old product. We were then told they expected "Toyota level quality", they never quantified what that was, from the new vehicle. My manager's manager wanted to know how long it would take to do a full body analysis of the new vehicle. I told him about 30 minutes. As all I needed to do was change the names on the files from the old product to the new. Same locators, same tools, same results. He didn't understand what I was driving at. [/QUOTE]
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