Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Testing & manufacturing techniques at Solms
From: Martin Howard <marho@ikp.liu.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:58:47 +0200

TEAShea@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Generally, well designed computer controlled equipment produces
> better quality than handmade efforts.
>

In a *very* narrow empirical sense, this may be true.  However, rather
than "quality" you should write "consistency".  Nevertheless, there are
a VAST number of jobs for which computer controlled or robotic equip-
ment cannot be employed.  These were EXCEEDINGLY expensive lessons
learned during the 80's by manufacturing industries in several
countries.

M.

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