GM 1500/Tahoe recall. Not good.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Terry I can assure you that most all of the workers want to build a good product.

However until quality takes precedence over product out the back door, we are going to continue to see this. It is Management that is calling the shots not the workers.

I have been told by area managers that they will sign off on a calibration so the line does not shut down. Managers receive quarterly bonuses for meeting production quotas and larger bonuses for exceeding them. Think they want to lose 10 to fifteen minutes of production for quality calibration? Nope no way, no how, not today mister. Go calibrate someone elses machine, I'll sign your damn book. Now go away! I found a way around this, I send out E-mails listing the line and machine or gages signed off on and send it to all the upper management. Very seldom do I get turned away anymore, get a lot of nasty looks however. But it works for me and my fellow workers.

BTW tame thing happens at GM and Ford day in day out. The Japs are not any different either.

Don

May be the way it works for you. But not for us. All I have to do to stop production is to say my gages are out of calibration. Our gages are not signed off by managers. they are only signed off by the gage lab. OR I can say. I need to gage the lapper, or tester. And in fact. I can say the pattern does not look good to me, and stop the works until it does. Our name is on every part we make. So that if it is wrong. They know who to come see. And if they come see you a couple times. You don't make any more parts. At least not for them.

Of course we have to make production. But our management knows that it is better to make 50 good units, than 100 bad ones. Our failure rate, or PPM is right around 9. Management likes that. GM likes it, Ford likes it as do BMW, Chrysler, And Massaritte. Prolly didn't spell that right.

Bottom line. It costs more to do it wrong than to do it right.