Back in November 2012, MLO ran an article titled "Empty QC" where the author suggested that some of our current QC practices are not adding value, or even supplying any useful function. This article prompted a response in our blog, Is QC "running on empty"?. But more recently, one of the website readers offered his own response.

Total Allowable Error can be used to benchmark test performance. It can be used to help optimize QC Design and determine Sigma-metrics. But can it be helpful when moving tests from one platform to another? One of our most popular guest authors, Hans van Schaik, discusses how he used TEa in this way at Ziekenhuis St. Antonius