The LXD Display Debacle

Dave has taken the hit for the display debacle. We had an entire shipment of First Article displays that do not work electrically. Right now it's around $3000 in scrap, it could end up being more. As much as I can't stand the guy, I think he has been given the shaft on this one. There is no way that we can do anything more then a dimensional evaluation of these displays. Engineering is telling Dave that because he did not push the engineering department to provide a test fixture to test the electrical capabilities of these displays, he is at fault. This is total bull shit. Engineering has found a scape goat and he is not strong enough to stand up to them. There is not a single component in house that we test in this manner. Hundreds of cable assemblies, transformers, displays, programmed IC's......etc. pass through these doors and engineering has never put any such test fixture in place for any of that stuff. That is the reason we require a certificate of compliance on receipt.

Now, how is it that nobody has actually blamed the supplier for not making these things correctly to begin with?? Come on!