This is trending in Chinese media, for all the wrong reasons.
A “QC check” where an operator claims to feel part thickness by how a machine rolls it. No gauges. No tolerances. No traceability. Just intuition presented as process.
What’s changed isn’t that this exists—it always has.
What’s changed is that Chinese netizens themselves are now calling it out.
That matters.
When performative manufacturing content replaces measurable control, the issue isn’t capability.
It’s the gap between narrative and engineering reality.