I have a question… With all of the emphasis on making the part, will you soon add Quality and CMM programming to the mix? The reason why I ask is because being a quality guy, I feel its important to teach quality to the students. I’m a firm believer that the best quality guys are the ones who once made the parts!
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When I was running medical devices in an ISO 13485 QS, the roles of responsibility was very clear. So to make my production floor as flexible as possible, I had all of my machine operators complete and maintain training for the floor inspector job description. This way they could inspect and sign off any in-process production item (exception they could not inspect their own parts), this eliminated any backlogs waiting on someone to sign off, or employee scheduling conflicts. In order to do this, I had to run Gage R&R regularly to determine how accurate each person can measure using micrometers and conventional measuring instruments. Since our standard tolerance was +/-.003, with most features +/-.0003, I found majority of my operators could not repeat/reproduce measure the +/-.0003. Yes, quality is a very important function of manufacturing and should be done at the machine when at all possible and not after the part is complete and sitting in an inspection room.
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Yes!! Quality starts at the machine. You would be surprised how many times I’ve stressed this but gotten push back. I primarily work in automotive and aerospace. In these fields, I have noticed that they want quality to take the responsibility. All they are concerned about is the numbers they produce. Hey I made 100 parts… 20 of them are bad. you only made 80. BTW, your parts are in MRB, You need to sort them!! (The life of a quality guy)
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DarrollHough I plan to include every facet of manufacturing in the Small Academy Group #27 once we get going. Much more to manufacturing than modeling and programming, so we may move a bit slower thru the building blocks but the plan is to cover everything from ordering stock and tooling to shipping parts out the door.
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Yes quality will be included in the curriculum we have already started adding inspection reports to our projects to get things started. We will be adding more things down the road.
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It is a little too late to inspect quality after the part has been taken out of the machine. For example, suppose the cycle time is two hours and due the wrong cutter radius compensation the part was ruined within the first five minutes. Then rest of the machining time is wasted.
Has anybody used more automated version of the Toolivision optics possibly made by some other company because it appears that Toolivision is out of business.
The ideal improvement to current Toolivision optics is for the program call it from the tool magazine to gage a selected features of the part and automatically trigger alarm if it is out of tolerance? If it is in tolerance than make record of for the Quality Control and continue machining.
My version of the Toolivision can do all of the above but program has to be stopped and the operator must do the gaging manually.
It works and it is the main reason why we are still in business. Does anybody know Where can we buy more automated version of Toolivision like optics?
Thanks for any advice.
Ilmar Leader of Small Group #99.
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