[AccessD] OT: The Great Primary Debate

I almost chlorinated the city of Memphis back in the '60s when I worked as a
storeroom clerk for a chemical co in high school. I put some nuts I found
into what I thought was the correct bin. Turned out they were slightly
different (1/64 as I recall). When a chlorine line went down that night the
maintenance crew grabbed a handful, replaced a flange and prepared to
pressure up the line. Fortunately the crew chief decided something "was not
quite right" and changed out the nuts. The next day I had to sit in front of
the bin with 20,000 nuts and separate out the bad guys by testiong them one
by one on a matching bolt. Yes an arbitrary serial part number once assigned
becomes an attribute and I wish the ?##@@$!! nuts had had one! True story.
Jim Hale

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart McLachlan [mailto:stuart at lexacorp.com.pg]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 8:27 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: The Great Primary Debate


On 11 Jun 2004 at 8:28, Scott Marcus wrote:

> John,
> 
> If you have a bin full of 20,000 screws (all the same, because that's
> what I was saying) you would be an amazing person if I could pick up
> anyone of them, show it to you, take it back, put it back in the bin,
> mix the bin up, and you could find that same exact screw. 
> 

You've obviously never developed any systems for the aircraft industry.

You need to track what supplier and manufacture batch any individual screw
came 
from, what aircraft it ended up on and where. You just don't dump 20,000
screws 
in a bin. :-(









 
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