Our bracket sits flat only while somebody holds it down

Luis, yes on the bench, but please don't let a better bench turn into a proposal to clamp the finished bracket flatter, the customer gets it without that clamp

It rocks on inspection's surface too, Luis, and Sarah they have taken it away to check the drawing supports properly, so at least I am not buying the bench a robot

That needs the responsible quality and engineering people, Liam. The handover also needs to say who handles parts that fail; otherwise correction becomes somebody quietly leaning on them.

Keep the example identified while it moves about. Ours got mixed with a corrected one on a trolley. Lost the afternoon explaining two different measurements of two different brackets.

Agreed Felix, provided someone establishes a permitted correction method and what gets checked afterwards, otherwise the supposed saving is just work disappearing from the estimate

Oscar, the sample was chosen because its welds looked good, which is fair for the weld discussion but somebody then called it our approved assembly; Toby, thanks, it now has its own tag and inspection photo

Does the drawing allow that rocking, or is a measured feature actually out?

Good question Sarah. Rocking got us excited on another job when the important feature was the hole position. Still needed checking, but we were arguing about the wrong thing first.

Sarah, the foot flatness is outside the drawing requirement on this one, inspection used revision D, and the hole positions passed, so we finally have something less vague than wobbly

That gives the fixture designer a real problem to discuss. Any other released samples available? One bad bracket tells you it happened. Wouldn't price the whole production story around just that one.

And keep corrected samples in a separate group. Labelled, not thrown out.

Thanks for naming revision D, Mina. Can the fixture review use that same revision? I have seen a purchasing attachment lag behind the drawing inspection actually used.

Did the designer change the proposed fixture, or are you still collecting brackets? Curious whether this has altered the buying decision yet.

Still collecting, Felix, and Ada the quote attachment was revision C so I have sent D and asked them to update it; I am not rejecting the fixture, just refusing to pretend the nice-looking sample settled it