Quality Software & Analysis: Gage Software for the Real World
Living in a fantasy world overshadows potential gage management problems.
Imagine a medium-sized company, Ephemeron Manufacturing, with three plants dispersed throughout North America. In renewing its ISO certification, the company has become increasingly aware of the importance of not only maintaining its measurement system components, but also of keeping track of preventive maintenance and being able to demonstrate to auditors that the company is indeed tracking gage maintenance in a more systematic way than simply updating a sticker on each piece of equipment and filling out a 3x5 card to record the information.