The consequences part that I mentioned is where it's at, if one wanted to design a functioning system.
If there's an incident and the investigation reveals an engineer signed off on something that was contrary to process, they lose their license and get to switch careers to something else.
If it turns out management pushed the engineer to do that, personal liability on management means they get to do some long jail time.
With those two enforcement points, you cut out nearly all the cheating.
Personal liability on management never happens. If it did, they would find a way to transfer it somewhere else: a contractor from 3rd world country, a discardable subsidiary, etc. Nothing will stand in the way of profits, not even bad publicity - they would just sell / be bought, rebrand, and do it all over again.
Oh, of course it'll never happen. I'm just responding to the thread that if a government actually wanted to create an effective quality mechanism, it's possible.
The consequences part that I mentioned is where it's at, if one wanted to design a functioning system.
If there's an incident and the investigation reveals an engineer signed off on something that was contrary to process, they lose their license and get to switch careers to something else.
If it turns out management pushed the engineer to do that, personal liability on management means they get to do some long jail time.
With those two enforcement points, you cut out nearly all the cheating.