Precision Machining

During my working life as a scientist, I worked mainly in engineering factories. I led one private company through to ISO9000 Quality certification. One of the requirements is calibration of measuring equipment. Many people do not seem to know that their precision of measurement must be smaller than one-third of the tolerance on the component's drawing. I found the following video interesting :

acotrel said:

During my working life as a scientist, I worked mainly in engineering factories. I led one private company through to ISO9000 Quality certification. One of the requirements is calibration of measuring equipment. Many people do not seem to know that their precision of measurement must be smaller than one-third of the tolerance on the component's drawing. I found the following video interesting :

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ISO certification is a FARCE.

concours said:

ISO certification is a FARCE.

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In Australia ISO certification is a farce because we buy on price - not quality. Nobody seems to notice what is in our local council tips. Where I live, freight trains roll past my house to all parts of Australia. They carry Chinese goods. It drves me insane when something I buy fails almost immediately. I bought a lovely stainless steel lamp - the shaft was threaded onto the base with about a 2 inch joint. It fell over due to too much clearance on the thread, and I still cannot think of a way to fix it. I might be able find some very strong polymer, but it would still be a bodge job. I have not thrown it out yet, but that might be the best answer - it looks too good.
What really amazes me is the clothing - my wife does volunteer work in a 'opportunity shop' - they have huge bales full of reject clothing. Every town in Australia must be the same.
In Australia, we buy goods from China and we sell houses to wealthy Chinese - we have a housing crisis.
I think there might be something wrong with the business model.

Al it boils down to greed, buy cheap from China and sell for big high up market prices to make more profits, our business people and Gov. have sold us out for greed and now it's coming back to bite them on their arses as well us the users and we not replacing the older tradesmen with younger traineeships, everyone wants their share, high wages mean we can no longer compete with cheap Asian labour cost and of course cost of living goes through the roof, we are now paying the price for high labour and production cost and where ever we go we are getting ripped off because of greed.
I worked at TAFE (Tec College) for 31 years and my last 10 years each GOV. was running it down with less money to train the young future tradesmen for today.

Ashley

It seems to me, that most young folks today want only to live on-line thru their smart phone. I know that's what my 3 youngest kids do when they get home from school...We've got 3 in college and 3 in high school (and I've got no money at the moment ) Anyway it's a kind of conundrum, right. We'll just have to see how it all unfolds, maybe all of the immigration that's going on in the States at the southern border right now is the answer. I mean somebody's, got to fill the void. Cj p.s. The info in that video is amazing

I am bringing-up 3 young girls - my step-grand kids. One is with us full time and the other two are with us every second week on shared custody. They are all girls, but they two half-brothers and a new baby half sister. I am a nasty old bastard, I try to teach all of them, everything I know. It is the best fun ever. The one who is with us full time - her teachers believe she is a super-star. She has been with us since she was a new-born baby. My own kids are in professions and have their own homes, but I have only one natural grand daughter. There are now about 9 kids who call me Grand-dad. I always try to help them to feell good about themselves, and motivate them. These days the kids' sources of information are immense. I never take a negative position an anything which can be constructive.

I used to work in large engineering factories, some in Defence. In our defence factories we had apprentice training sections. Each factory turned out about 40 trades-people per year. Most of them got jobs as machinery sales-people.
Australia can only ever hope to compete on the basis of quality. We are capable of doing things with perfection, however we never did.
A Rolls-Royce was a quality motor car - 'fit for purpose with OBVIOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL'.

I don't like engineers - many have the wrong mindset. Anyone who has a univerisity degree must be 'COMPETENT' ? - What they DO NOT know can sometimes be astounding.