SBs and PSBs.

A manufactured product is spread on the work bench. A gathering of bright-eyes, long faces and dim-wits stood around the bench closely inspecting the product. The product had certain surface defects and the objective was to salvage the product for usage. The product comes in roll form and there were 10 such rolls to be inspected and salvaged.

Unfortunately, this had to be carried out in the Facility premises which had no air-conditioning. On such occasions, the Facility man is always placed at a disadvantage. For company he will have only the vendor’s representative. Both need the material for continuation of the work on hand.

The dead-lock centred on coining the correct term to describe the surface defects and agree on a number for each category as a salvage measure.

All the while the  facility man patiently waited like a hunter stalking prey. After allowing sufficient interval of silence, he slowly ventured to take the matter of christening the defects into his hands.

He simply lifted the product of about a meter length and dramatically positioned against day-light and uttered “These are see-through blisters and these are partially see-through blisters” He further explained saying “when you can see more of sun light it is a see-through blister and if sun-light is diffused and hazy it is partially see-through blister”.

The gathering of gentlemen heaved a sigh of relief and latched on to the erudite explanation. The happy gathering then proceeded to shorten the coined words as SBs & PSBs were glad to lay down a limit that the combined SBs & PSBs should be 25 numbers / m²

Fix a number to solve a Technical issue!

[The narrative though set in a specific environment , could have taken place in a rubber lining industry. This setting helps the reader spin their own yarn :) ]