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- Establish what Apex knew about the August lot before the recall.
- Lock the witness in on Apex's 0.4 percent investigation threshold.
- Trace the chain of approvals between QA dashboard and recall notice.
- 01
Background and qualifications
- Describe your role as Director of Quality at Apex Mobility.
- Walk me through your team's responsibilities on the production-line audit.
Ex. 03 — Personnel File - 02
Pre-recall warning signs
- When did you first see the August lot warranty return data?
- Who has visibility into the QA dashboard you initialed on September 14?
Ex. 18 — August QA DashboardEx. 19 — Internal Slack thread - 03
Recall decision
- Walk me through the conversation that led to the October 11 recall notice.
- What was the elapsed time between your dashboard sign-off and the recall?
Ex. 24 — Recall notice draft
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The brake assemblies in that production run met every applicable FMVSS standard. They went through the same validation regime we apply to every line we ship.
Was the failure rate ever flagged internally, Ms. Vance?
Our quality team monitors every batch closely. We routinely catch outliers. The flagged returns from the August lot were within our normal warranty range. The data did not warrant a formal investigation.
Let's come back to that. Your team's own threshold for opening a formal investigation is 0.4 percent, correct?
Yes. That's our standard trigger.
And the August lot exceeded that threshold by more than a factor of three before the recall went out, didn't it?
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Witness confirmed she initialed the August QA dashboard on September 14, four weeks before Apex issued the recall notice.
Witness initially characterized the August lot returns as “within our normal warranty range” before conceding the rate was more than three times Apex's 0.4 percent investigation threshold.
Witness acknowledged no formal investigation was opened until October 11, the same day the recall was issued, despite the dashboard flagging the lot in early September.
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