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H IP Robinson Trip Report 6. R. Tarne ay 13. 1968 y cc: W. J. Sheehan Open our arrival at the Robinson Soft Casket Plant on Monday evening, April 29* Hr. Burns and f observed poor Quality Control conditions In the aaaufactwring of Victopae. Us found trie lace and foreign Material on the stacks of oeteriat, foot prints of employees walking on stack and generally poor appearance for a good clean operation. On Tuesday wonting, we tented foe Vlctopac manufacturing. area with Mr. dobs Zfetz. Me observed similar conditions, such atwere observed to foe previous evening. Another observation afo wes foe annuer la which foe aim were handling a micrometer. The non appeared to ns as If they did eat even knew what foe Instrument was to be weed for, such less hw hew to use. foe tool. One nen in particular wes using a micrometer wearing heavy sieves, es they all do. and they -If were using foe microwefor lihs a wrench. In addition he wes checking a sheet of .015 Vlctopac, 6W with a afematsr that was out of calibration by .003. foe range of acceptance of .015 amterlal Is 0i3 to .018. ft teas apparent that foe een should have an explanation of foelr respon sibility for the product that they are waking. 1 foes had such dis cussion with the people, along with their stqtervlslon, and I font foot ay discussion was wail accepted. 1 repeated the discussion with foe *^CM shift personnel. A general discussion wes then with Mr. don* who was masant at quality requirement! Of: ties 1/32 Vfttopac, A0V. The question presented to 4sfoHfdl* ' catlvoof ournormol VictMac|te)lty or wss-'*..... foes. ' that believed that it was worse foan our usual suggested e plee whereby the Material could be used wti_____j_-jQt_aB_nSMmsauacuhxt. trouble. Since foe Materiel In question wes 1/32 and foe general unq* would he for cesteeef* vtler than Caterpillar, foe order drawn fton this Inventory could he Marked Chicago Material. After blanking they could fan through this stock end rewova alt obvious defects free the lot. fots wes accepted as a weans of using up the inventory of Chicago cede meterlal. Also, to minimize the problem* It was suggested we 1 fmlt foe centers to a run only basis. These discussions tore held in the presence of Mr. Burns and he end Hr. Behr agreed to thus. L. S. Oynltro VPD-91-0001207