19 Jan
2007
19 Jan
'07
1:06 a.m.
There is another reason for this. Warranty fraud has
become a 7 digit
problem for most OEM manufacturers. Get a good stock of scrap products,
take parts off a good product, replace them with the bad parts and send the
good product in for repair. Whether very little effort, you can amass a
huge stock of good parts and sell or assemble them in units for resale.
There are even places on the internet where you can get labels made, or do
it yourself.
I would sometimes see something similar at USR, but it was not for
money, it was for laziness. Sometimes techs would "mistake" bad parts
for good, use them in "repairs", and their productivity looks a lot
higher. Often by the time the bad parts were recaught, the paper trail
to the tech was gone.
So most OEM companies have explicit protocol for scrap
destruction. There
are just too many people out there trying to make a buck out of it.
USR had a seven or eight layer form (you had to press REALLY hard) to
fill out for the bits of scrap. The bottom layer stayed with the
scrap, and was destroyed with the scrap.
--
Will