Tort Components: Defective Products
There are generally two types of defective products; those with defective designs and those that are manufactured improperly.
Design defects occur when the engineering processes used by a company to design a product is faulty, resulting in a product that is unnecessarily dangerous. With a design defect, all the items that come off a company's assembly line have the same defect.
On the other hand, a manufacturing defect occurs when a product is not manufactured as designed. While there is nothing wrong with the product's overall design, the manner in which it is assembled is flawed. With a manufacturing defect, the problem is usually not common to all the items which roll off the company's assembly line, but rather with only a few.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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