formal quality procedures in FRC?

[wireties]

Our team had a banner season but it was marred by hard-to-explain (and stomach) stretches where we suffered quality issues. At champs we actually put up 5 stacks of 6 on the practice field sandwiched by 2 Carson matches where we scored almost zero - very frustrating.

I think that FRC teams are intended to mimic companies (with some limitations). My reaction to similar quality issues in a company would be a formal quality program and an effort to make quality assurance a part of the "culture".

Do any teams out there have formal quality programs? Do they work? Might you share some details? How far do you take it? Do you have team members tasked with quality inspections? Do you inspect as you design and practice or only at competitions? Do you consciously design for testability and maintainability? In most companies, the quality folks seem to have a slightly adversarial relationship to engineering and manufacturing - do you take it that far? How might one incentivize students to pursue greater quality?

TIA