[fabfabfab]

100%. I worked in the heart of semiconductor manufacturing. Quality primarily a result of systems such as COD (Contain-your-own-defect), SPC (statistical process control), inspection metrology (traceability to NIST, MCA, reproducibility, repeatability, etc.), 5M+E (man, machine, materials, methods, measurement and environment), copy exact, etc.

What OP is talking about is that good tools are the ones with better design. OP mistakes the technical term "quality" with "good design". Quality is producing things as per specifications and allowable tolerances.

[doodlebugging]

>Quality is producing things as per specifications and allowable tolerances.

Exactly. Quality Control is verification of the fact that things were produced to spec with correct materials to allowable tolerances.

I think quality is the part where many offshore manufacturers are willing to cut corners and quality control is sporadic or absent. Thanks for this.