Reductio ad absurdum says the table it sits on is "part of the test", and the power supply it runs off is "part of the test", and the engineers car that he uses to get to work to run the test is "part of the test"...
I'd _strongly_ advise that a screw that hold together the enclosure of a load-simulating-test-jig is _not_ "part of the test" in the way that requires ISO9000 compliance (or space-rating).
Instead he contrasted it to what you can do today as a startup.
What would be the point of testing it then? If the test isn't replicating the production environment before production, what is the point? At that point you might as well just hot-glue the safety cover on. What's the difference?
Me, I'd _happily_ hot glue the cover on if it were more convenient to me at the time. I see this as mostly a workplace safety issue - the screw holding the cover on is _not_ "part of the test", it's mostly to keep accidental fingerpoking out.
