Specifically, the lawsuit says Countrywide's own quality control reports identified defect rates of nearly 40percentt in some months, rates that were 10 times the standard industry defect rate.
In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq's military industries defected.
Further, in tiles industry convexity defects result in huge quality costs as well as production losses.
Mr. Maetzig said he had never considered leaving East Germany, even when colleagues in the film industry were defecting to the West.
The lawsuit is the latest seeking to hold the automotive industry liable for defects that could make driving unsafe, such as Takata airbags and ignition switches on GM vehicles.
The advocacy group has taken controversial political positions in the past that prompted some industry leaders to defect from its platform.
Ski construction once a mountain-town industry that largely defected 30 years ago to places like China (K2, Black Diamond), Spain (Rossignol), Bulgaria (Atomic) and Tunisia (Movement, AK is coming back to the U.S. thanks, in part, to custom shops.
The demand for powder metallurgy (P/M) parts in its traditional automotive market is predicted to grow, but future sector expansion depends directly upon its capability to manufacture zero-defect parts for industries such as aerospace and medicine.
Dubbed "Four-Dimensional Elastic Light Scattering Fingerprinting" (4D-ELF), this method uses a tool called a light spectrometer (typically used in the semiconductor industry to monitor wafer defects) to measure biological tissues.
Judge Rudolph Contreras, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, upheld the administration's power to enact the rule, but, in a lawsuit brought by expensive lawyers hired by the powerful for-profit college industry, he found two defects and blocked the administration from enforcing it.
