[DML] Re: Quality Assurance?

[William T Wilson <fluffy@xxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Stian Birkeland wrote:

> Why was it necessary to set up Quality Assurance Centers in the States?

To put the cars together again. :}

All import car companies have quality assurance centers to straighten out
things that may have gotten knocked loose during shipping, perform
upgrades that were introduced while the cars were in transit, that sort of
thing. In the case of DMC, the first cars to come out of the factory were
in very rough shape. Not all the machines were broken in and many of the
employees were not fully trained yet. Because of that, the QA centers
rebuilt many of the early cars to arrive in the US.

Once the factory got up to speed, the QA centers assumed the more
traditional QA-center role, but were still necessary for that purpose as
well as distribution centers.