re: Pencil whipping,,, still being used as valid reason for terminating problem operators???

Depends on the plant… my old plant absolutely. A lot of it was field gauges and manual operation. An honest round was necessary for product spec. At my new plant everything is run from the console basically. A field round is just for triple or quadruple verification against in house indicators. I could care less if those could pencil whipped, I care more about when it’s nut cutting time and they can do something quickly and safely.