i told my story before but ... i had a board once put on hold and missed a major deadline ISO shop
the called and said that my outside dimension string read 5.000 inches but when they measured the drawn outline it measured 4.999 inches i was out of the office by the time the 'deviation exception' form was filled out and signed off by them a whole week was lost i pointed out that the routing tolerance was .005 inches anyway, "why did you put it on hold?" they said "because we are ISO" i told them i was sorry to hear that the same junk is going on with my sheet metal suppliers now Dennis Saputelli Yves Dubois wrote: > > The problem with ISO is that it protects incompetent engineers and transform > them into "suppose to be intelligent managers". Those people hide behind the > ISO monster that they create to keep there job. > > On the long term.... When all businesses will be ISO (I hope not) what will > be the point. They will have to invent another system so that they can be > ISO. > > May be we can start a naming contest for that futuristic new system: > > here is a suggestion: > > STUPID. > > System > Tracking > Universal > Procedure > Integrated > Documentation > > Not Bad :) > > Yves Dubois > PCB designer > Raytron LTD > Montreal > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:33 PM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] A little OT - ISO9000 was :PCB labelling > > > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:08:09 -0400, you wrote: > > > > >The idea behind ISO9000 is just plain "common" sense (I put "common" in > > >quotes because common sense really isn't very common). So why do we need > a > > >trendy business school graduate buzzword to invoke it? Because the > trendy > > >business school graduates need to justify their existence and oversized > > >paychecks and golden parachutes somehow ;-) > > > > The idea behind ISO9000 is self propagation. > > > > It spreads down the supply chain like an infectious disease. > > > > I wonder what percentage of companies would have ISO9000 were it not for > > ISO9000 induced pressure from thier customers? Single digit is my guess. > > > > Perhaps that is an indication of its real value. > > > > > > Cheers, Terry. > > -- Dennis Saputelli ========= send only plain text please! - no HTML ========== _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. www.integratedcontrolsinc.com 2851 21st Street tel: 415-647-0480 San Francisco, CA 94110 fax: 415-647-3003 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
