Hey Covers, I'm back again......it has been sometime and I am now in my third company since joining the Cove! Apologies for my absence!
I know there is a recent thread on this, but it doesn't really answer my question so here goes!
Ok I have a similar question and one that has plagued me for years in various companies!
We are TS certified and have scales on site simply to count product when picking parts or verifying incoming deliveries.
Clause 7.6 states you need to establish monitoring and measurement activities, using monitoring and measurement equipment
Now are our scales doing that? They are not measuring the products we ship to customers against any specified requirements. They do measure the quantity of parts being used internally, thus an internal conformance to PO and Pick requirements, not a product conformance per se!?
The calibration requirements applies, we will calibrate them to ensure we can rely on them, but do we need to do this to traceable standards (UKAS here in the UK?).
There is also the "where necessary" just before 7.6(a)!! Does a discrepancy of 4 screws being short on a pick require us to use traceable standards? My management would probably laugh that one off the table.
There's a reasonably significant cost saving to be made here, hence my question, Standard or Traceable calibration??
Thanks in advance
I know there is a recent thread on this, but it doesn't really answer my question so here goes!
Ok I have a similar question and one that has plagued me for years in various companies!
We are TS certified and have scales on site simply to count product when picking parts or verifying incoming deliveries.
Clause 7.6 states you need to establish monitoring and measurement activities, using monitoring and measurement equipment
to provide evidence of conformity of product to determined requirements
Now are our scales doing that? They are not measuring the products we ship to customers against any specified requirements. They do measure the quantity of parts being used internally, thus an internal conformance to PO and Pick requirements, not a product conformance per se!?
The calibration requirements applies, we will calibrate them to ensure we can rely on them, but do we need to do this to traceable standards (UKAS here in the UK?).
There is also the "where necessary" just before 7.6(a)!! Does a discrepancy of 4 screws being short on a pick require us to use traceable standards? My management would probably laugh that one off the table.
There's a reasonably significant cost saving to be made here, hence my question, Standard or Traceable calibration??
Thanks in advance