[DanBC]

I ised to work in electronic subcontract engineering. They had some automation (little pick and place machine with oven and screen printer; a flow oven for populated PCBs) but there was a lot of work done by hand.

It was a terrible time of my life and it informs a lot of my opinion about poor management and inefficient working and about ISO900x quality assurance systems.

[madengr]

ISO9000 just means you must document that management crap on it's employees. As long as your crappy processes are documented, you are good-to-go.

[ttflee]

Passing these management craps are not completely meaningless. Sometimes, people do realise what was the problem during the process of producing these management craps.