Lots of stuff made in countries other than the US, its made to whatever standard the company wants it to be, apparantly moog just got cheap, as their US made stuff is the only stuff thats any good.
Any one can make good quality parts, but there will always be some defects during a production run. This is where quality control comes in.
Years ago, I worked in a manufacturing plant. The items we made came out of the machine at the rate of 300 per minute. They were inspected by automatic machine, and by human eye as they passed down the packaging line. Every so often, a defect would get by. These item were shipped by 18 wheeler about 100 miles to the customer. When the customer recieved the truck, a QC inspector would pull some randome cases of parts and inspect them right on the recieving dock, We were allowed one "major" (functional) defect, or three "minor" (cosmetic) defects. during that inspection. If they found more, the entire truckload was rejected, and returned to our company, at our expense, and we had to reinspect the entire load by hand. How many companies would go to this expense, today?
