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Items Tagged with 'gages'

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Guest Column

Why do we tolerate such poor gages?

Quality managers demand good data.
Qm1019 clmn guest columnb p1 author ian lazarus
Ian R Lazarus
August 3, 2020
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I’m a Type-A personality with a sense of urgency to explain everything. Give me a little data, and I will use every statistical tool I can wrap around these rationalizations to help explain an observation. But here is something that I cannot explain: why do we tolerate such poor gages?


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master ring gage being measured

Benefits of Automating the Calibration Process

As with any measurement process, reducing the influence of the human element helps improve the results and reduce the measurement uncertainty.
George Schuetz Daniel C. Danckert
August 3, 2020
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The precision length calibration process is very much like any length measurement process, but taken to a significantly higher level. Both processes are composed of the same elements.


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“That’s Not What I Meant”: Ambiguous operational definitions can lead to real trouble.

Qm1019 clmn guest columnb p1 author ian lazarus
Ian R Lazarus
May 1, 2020
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In a classic Dilbert cartoon, the “client” proudly claims to Dogbert the consultant that “every three months, an existing customer acquires another product.” Dogbert replies, “what if you don’t count warranty replacements?”


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inspection tools

The Gage Selection Conundrum

The correct selection of measuring devices will ensure the quality, price and delivery of the products we manufacture and use.
Mike Oddy
May 1, 2020
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Selecting gages and other types of measuring tools can be challenging. It does not matter if you are an experienced or novice gage user, tool crib manager, lab manager or buyer. 


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Fix It or Fling It?

Keep such a recovery program cheap and simple.
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Hill Cox
April 8, 2020
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As a supplier of all types of measuring instruments, we are regularly asked to quote the cost of repairing some of them. In days gone by, it was a common service offered by many in the industry but modern technology has changed all that while increasing the amount of garbage to the local landfill. Marketing and manufacturing are both to blame.


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Quality Audits: You're Kidding Me!

The auditor determined that it was not precise enough.
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Hill Cox
March 15, 2020
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Our industry is fraught with tales of quality audits from hell and other less than desirable places, usually the result of standards written by folks who know a little but expand it to encompass a lot.


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Whose Acceptance Limits?

Part 2 of 2 - Practical Acceptance 'Limits' are a judgement call.
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Hill Cox
February 8, 2020
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In my last column I noted that I would give some hints to help you avoid problems with assigning and applying acceptance limits, so let’s go back to square one.


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Whose Acceptance Limits?

Part 1 of 2: Learn more about these boundaries of precision.
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Hill Cox
January 1, 2020
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More companies than ever are downloading decisions to calibration laboratories causing perfectly acceptable gages and instruments to be ‘failed’ by them. How could such a thing happen?


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Facing Reality, Part III

Unrealistic expectations.
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Hill Cox
December 15, 2019
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Some of the data I’ve noted from the AMTMA studies make it very clear that measurement disputes will continue. When the range of readings is close to or exceeds the tolerances of the gages being calibrated, it is a certainty. Further problems will occur due to unrealistic expectations by all the parties involved in a dispute.


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Facing Reality, Part II

When measurement disputes arise, the finger pointing begins.
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Hill Cox
November 1, 2019
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Measurement disputes over gage calibration continue despite the results of the studies noted in my previous column.


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