Comment by neilv
12 hours ago
> (The company learned that lesson in 1967, after a single pin was discovered between the layers of a suit prototype, leading to the installation of an X-ray machine on the shop floor that would regularly scan the suits for errant fasteners.)
This is also a thing in consumer mass production now. An outerwear factory that our startup worked with had a needle scanner as the last step of the process, before shipping. There was basically a window that finished units had to pass through, to shipping, so that the needle scanner wouldn't accidentally be skipped.
They should do this in the medical world too, where surgery tools are sometimes left inside the patient.
That’s an expensive solution for a simple problem. They currently just count all supplies in and all supplies out. It works.
If it's that simple, why don't they do it in the fashion industry?
Absolutely, this is more common than many think