In the newspaper, I read about "BIG Daddy" ice cream by DeConna Ice Cream Co. of Orange Lake, FL. According to the packaging label, a 12 oz serving "BIG Daddy" has 100 calories and 2 grams of fat. At only 2 Weight Watchers points, the stuff is virtually flying out the super market doors from Florida to Virginia. Long story short, "BIG Daddy" uses consumer labeling that is [How shall we put it?], um, less than representative of the result of tests done by independent test labs.
I am not accusing or suggesting that any xray machine supplier of pulling a "BIG Daddy". Nor do I think for one single moment that anyone in that business would ever consider doing anything less than what was right and proper, but we all know there are moments in the heat of battle that we all wished we had a just a little more zip in our douda. [I do that more often than I�d like to think.]
What are some of the sneaky little tricks that a "BIG Daddy" of xray machines might "try to pull" to make their machine appear a little more attractive than it might otherwise appear. Please talk about both specmanship and operating tricks.
What is the standard, ANSI or something like that, test of the operation of and xray machine? Is there a standard object, er structure, that xray-types use to compare, assess machines?
Each of us use certain machines everyday and are more intimately familiar with that type of machine than others. On the machine that we are intimate with, we could do a pretty good job of wringing-out another similar machine, maybe made by another supplier, to understand the "ins & outs" of its operation. What are the steps of a process used to assess a xray inspection machine?
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