A. I recently worked with a manufacturing company that had a high percent of defective finished parts.

Just swap out the defective part and I'm good to go!

He said defective parts presumably found their way into use and may still be in use.

Additional problems were caused by the large numbers of defective parts, some items reaching a 90% rejection rate.

And, he boasted, "We haven't sent our customer not one defective part in real close to a year."

Usually it's a manufacturer who gets sued for a defective part.

"Modern man as defective part in the assembly line of war," he murmured.

But managers decided to replace the defective part and return it to earth for analysis.

In 3 of those cases, the report said, the defective parts contributed to an accident.

The results of the inspection are used to reject defective parts.