CNC Manufacturing Company Aims for Precision Automated Inspection
It was time to refine the quality inspection system beyond the mostly manual process.
2A Armament, located in Boise, Idaho, is a CNC manufacturing company that works in the firearms and defense industries as well as medical, prosthetic, motorsports, semiconductor and outdoor recreation markets. In 2009 they entered the firearm component manufacturing business, knowing their machines could manufacture these precision parts. After a couple years of successful automated production, they wanted to refine their quality inspection even more, beyond the mostly manual process. Since some of their parts had up to 120 gage points to measure, they wanted a faster, more automated system of measurement.
2A Armament focuses on the manufacturing side, so their clients can concentrate more on product innovation. With only eight employees, their shop was built around a more automated and lean approach to manufacturing, allowing the machines to do most of the manual and tedious labor. And with it taking operators a day to measure just two to three parts with manual gages such as pins, calipers and height gages, they knew they needed a different solution for quality inspection.