Episode 33 - Perfect Planning: The Key to Harmonious Manufacturing

The AeroGrowth Podcast · Sep 22, 2026 · 11m

Dan and Tony discuss how different workplace personalities affect collaboration in manufacturing, focusing on the often-adversarial dynamic between engineering and quality assurance. Tony shares an example of a strict aerospace QA inspector who searched for rule violations—such as using the wrong tape—rather than collaborating early to ensure compliance, later noting the tape mattered in a medical oxygen system because hydrocarbons can create fire risk. Tony explains that QA work is largely interpretation of specs and that QA’s role is to find what’s wrong and ultimately sign off compliance…