Trim plates rejected under one lamp and accepted under another

RobinAbbott0077 · 6 Feb 2026, 18:08 UTC

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RobinAbbott0077
Our FR5 camera examples have two inspectors giving opposite decisions on the same brushed plate. Which decision should the image label follow?

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BethBrown0933
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

Neither by majority vote. What appearance check are they supposed to be using? If one person's hunting marks under a desk lamp and the other is following an agreed inspection view, that's not the same judgement.

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to BethBrown0933

Both say normal visual inspection. Their lamps and viewing positions are different. No written comparison method.

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JamieAdams0121
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

Quality should settle the inspection method and the physical plate's decision before you make either inspector's caption the camera target. You can retain the disputed images without calling them accepted or rejected references yet.

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AmaraBarnes0600
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

I would also give that particular plate an identity and somewhere to live, because a discussion about one troublesome finish becomes harder when someone returns it to the production box.

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AnikaBrown0943
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

Is it already in a training exercise?

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to AnikaBrown0943

Only the study folder, Anika. Plate is retained and numbered now, Amara. Quality is arranging a comparison.

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BethBrown0933
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

Good. You have time to leave it undecided without confusing a class or a production checker.

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JamieAdams0121
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

Our own exercise had a genuinely accepted bright band beside a rejected lip mark. We kept both because a quiet-looking image was not enough to distinguish them. Your disputed plate may become useful even if quality accepts it.

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AnikaBrown0943
Replying to JamieAdams0121

Jamie, yes. Don't remove an awkward accepted example to make the detector look clever.

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to JamieAdams0121

Quality accepts the plate under the agreed viewing method. The broad streak was not a scratch.

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BethBrown0933
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

What changed between the two inspectors' methods?

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to BethBrown0933

One tilted the plate until the overhead strip light reflected along the brush direction. The other didn't.

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AmaraBarnes0600
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

Does the agreed method now explain the viewing position well enough that a replacement inspector can use it, rather than needing either of those two people to demonstrate?

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JamieAdams0121
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

And keep the camera presentation separate from that physical judgement. It may need a different arrangement to reveal the required defects reliably, but it still has to respect the accepted finish.

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BethBrown0933
Replying to JamieAdams0121

Jamie, that's the awkward bit. Easy to hide the band and congratulate yourself while also hiding a real scratch. I'd want confirmed rejects beside this plate through the comparison.

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to AmaraBarnes0600

Amara, the method has a setup photograph and quality checked it with another inspector. They agreed on this plate.

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RobinAbbott0077
Replying to BethBrown0933

Added two confirmed rejects, Beth. One disappears in our quieter camera view, so that view isn't enough. Thanks for warning me.

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AnikaBrown0943
Replying to RobinAbbott0077

An inconvenient example doing its job, then.

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