I recently started a new job as QC Supervisor at a small bio-medical firm. I inherited a lot of systems. The QC Incoming Inspection Dept is being relocated and the two Micro-Vu CMMs are being moved. We are bringing in the outside people to recalibrate the equipment after the move. When the CMMs were originally purchased the company did a full IQ, OQ & PQ on the two machines. This included inspecting 22@ of three different parts, and 22@ of six different gage pins.

In my life in the quality field when we moved a CMM we had it calibrated by an outside source and might do some limited checking of parts against a second method just for comfort sake. I would like to hear some opinions of what others have experienced and done when moving a Visual CMM. We have quite a number of already written programs and I would want to check a number of these programs with a second measurement method just to assure that any ambiant lighting conditions were not affecting the measurements.

Thanks

I would select a handful of parts, run them so you have a good test profile, then after the move and recalibraion re-run the same parts and do a correlation to the original test profile.

Hope that helps.

Who's moving the machines? Micro-Vu? Then Micro-Vu should do a qualification test after it is moved. If it is someone esle who has no vested interest in the machine other than moving it I would certainly run a good sampling of parts across the machine.

Mark Boucher