The Machine That Passed FAT and Failed SAT We built an assembly machine. The FAT (factory acceptance test) at our shop went perfectly — it ran 8 hours straight at the design cycle time, all stations passed, the customer signed off. Two weeks later, at the customer’s plant (SAT), the machine didn’t run right. The …

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