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I'm trying to remember the name of a manufacturing strategy, where different mildly-defective components are kept and combined to create a final product that still works because their physical or electrical flaws cancel out.

I think I saw in the context of a company that made radios, and at the time (80s?) it didn't really work out for them.

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This might be a sub-strategy of the broader manufacturing technique called “binning” in which products of varying quality, size/weight, performance, or some other variable parameter are sorted for later re-combining into similar groups (often to result in different product “grades”), or dissimilar groups to achieve a more uniform total, by average.

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