08/13/2026
Most quality plans only inspect a fraction of what rolls off the line. That means the majority of production never gets checked, and the defects most likely to slip through (outliers, human error, missing parts, equipment that fails intermittently) aren't random, so a random sample isn't built to catch them.
We broke down what that actually costs in scrap, rework, and recalls, and why it matters more than most quality teams realize: https://hubs.la/Q04sX0c_0