Identify the AIS design problems in the following abbreviated cases, and suggest ways for improvements:

(a) You have discovered by on-site inspection that a manager is consistently mis-recording the amounts of materials used on individual jobs. In total, the amounts recorded equal the budgeted total.

(b) The head of an airframe design section continually uses component parts that result in the aircraft working perfectly but being overweight. On inquiring, the head of design argues that if his design fails, the blame can be traced back to him. For any one section, the part is only a few kilograms overweight, but the company has 100 other design sections all having the same attitude and all contributing designs that, in total, result in the aircraft being several hundred kilograms overweight.

(c) The manager of the quality control section associated with the new microcomputer project approaches you informally with a problem. The project chief is not allowing him to spend the funds allocated for quality and reliability testing. Instead so me of these funds are being siphoned off to ensure that production remains on schedule and that output is at the expected level.