and its determined to get rid of them.
“Where there’s a will there’s a way. We can do it,” said Stacy Kelley-Scherer, the Mint’s Division Chief in charge of Quality.
It’s a matter of looking at the complete process for manufacturing the coins, she said, from the raw planchets to the chemicals used to clean them, as well as the machinery.
“We have to not only wash and rinse them, but make sure that they’re dry, because if not, they will get spots on them like glasses in the dishwasher,” Kelley-Scherer said.
Any process, she said, whether manufacturing coins, changing oil in a car or baking a cake has the same five categories: operator, machinery, materials, method and information, and environment.
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“Where there’s a will there’s a way. We can do it,” said Stacy Kelley-Scherer, the Mint’s Division Chief in charge of Quality.
It’s a matter of looking at the complete process for manufacturing the coins, she said, from the raw planchets to the chemicals used to clean them, as well as the machinery.
“We have to not only wash and rinse them, but make sure that they’re dry, because if not, they will get spots on them like glasses in the dishwasher,” Kelley-Scherer said.
Any process, she said, whether manufacturing coins, changing oil in a car or baking a cake has the same five categories: operator, machinery, materials, method and information, and environment.
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