By increasing the frequency of inspections and decreasing the time of inspection throughout the production process, inspecting in or near the production line allows for verification of 100% of components.
Today’s manufactured components are more multifaceted than ever, requiring more parts, additional updates to those parts and ever tighter tolerances.
So as customer demands surge, manufacturers are reassessing component measurement. They have historically used tailgate measurement, or a process where operators use computer-controlled equipment to validate randomly selected parts in batches, to assess these parts. They have typically done this off the shop floor, usually in a lab.