Displaying measurement data can be dangerous. A recent experience in another area of life gave me some insight on how overwhelming uninterpreted data can be and how too much data can crush someone with an untrained eye.
Applied Automation Technologies Inc. (AAT, Rochester Hills, MI) has been releasing software since 1987-but this year’s CAPPS NC has the potential to create a paradigm shift.
Measuring calipers have been around for nearly 150 years. In that time they have evolved into full-featured digital measuring systems. But it is a testament to the simplicity and versatility of the original design that the evolution has been so slow and that so few changes have been required to produce the instruments we are familiar with today.
More companies than ever are taking measurement uncertainty into account when it comes to gage calibration, and for that matter, even on product measurements. This is due to the fact that a measurement without an uncertainty statement is basically a “reading” with nothing to indicate how good or bad it might be.
Everyone believes that process is a simple thing to manage and there is nothing more to learn about it. Our work environment inspires us to do what is needed.
As quality professionals we should borrow from the wisdom of Charles Dickens. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. It is the best of times because the need for continual improvement and for performance excellence is evident to quality professionals, business managers and the customers we serve.
While the basic physics and theory related to the NDT methods have not changed, advances in data processing and instrument capabilities have made for better inspections.
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