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... Quality Control inspection mentality to a worker based process control mentality. Responsibility for quality control was now placed more with the production operators and less with the QC auditors. The idea was to standardize processes so that the defects could be identified at the nascent stage, i.e. by detecting variability in the process, and thus correctional measures could be taken early on. Thus a machine operating outside the control limits could be stopped immediately and maintenance or recalibration of the machine could be undertaken. The benefit of this new project was projected to be multi-fold. * A reduction in the number of defects being produced. * A reduction in the cost of sampled scrap for quality control purposes at all the three stages: Operator sampling, QC auditor sampling and finished product sampling. * A reduction in the number of Quality Control auditors required for the R2 plant. This would be brought about by reducing ...