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Are de-kitted lenses more prone to sample variation?

Started Jul 12, 2016 | Discussions thread
Wasabi Bob Contributing Member • Posts: 680
Re: Are de-kitted lenses more prone to sample variation?

Impulses wrote:

I can respect your opinion that is based on your assumptions. My comments were based on having visited the facility on more than one occasion. Years ago you had hundreds of workers manning such facilities. Today the production teams are just a few people that basically monitor the quality data. From start to finish, few, if any human hands touch the product. The manufacturing consistency far exceeds what a "human production line" can produce. One of the tests subject the lens to drop tests to measure the specification deviation.

That's a load... Machines aren't perfect, there are always tolerances within the manufacturing process even when it's automated. Not that shipping couldn't exacerbate things, but there are most definitely bad samples coming off the line. They've just decided it's within their acceptable losses and you can bet they've done the math on returns etc.

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