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This is more of a vent than anything. Have any of you ever had an engineer that did not know why you need more than one part and one operator to perform a gage R & R. I explained that we needed to account for part variation, operator variation, and measurment variation. he still did not get it. He just walked out looking confused, shaking his head and asking why we got the machine (a laser micrometer of sorts) if it was going to be so much trouble.

On top of that he told me a few days ago that he had learned about Design of Experiment in school but could never figure out how to use it for what he does. He was an injection plastic engineer now he does extrusion blow molding.
The boss said to me the other day when the engineer was caught doing something stupid that the company would always defer to the engineer's experience and expertise instead of the data I was presenting.
I give up. The data clearly showed lack of process control. The equipment manufacture and three separate consultants all said it should be able to perform better, but we will defer to the "expert".

The practices make sense, and provide value for the process. That holds true, no matter how much schoolin' you have/don't have.