Allyn, WA
Quoted from Pinballlew:Manufacturing is just that manufacturing. You are going to have problems. Heck look at how many recalls car companies have and they produce many times that of Stern pinballs.
Depends on the car manufacturer. Most car manufacturers follow the six sigma process for individual parts, which is usually around a 5.99 (meaning maybe one out of a million parts come in non-compliant). If drawings are toleranced appropriately, and parts come in pre-inspected (IE meets print), and the designer does proper stackup, and parts are designed so it can't be assembled wrong (poka-yoke), there should almost never be an issue.
I don't know it's fair to compare the two anyway. It's much easier to put in flaw prevention when you're building a million cars a year, it's a little harder when you're making 5,000 pinballs before the next model is introduced to the production floor.
