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Sorry for such a long write up. I thought let me share my experience and understand whether we too can implement any other suggestions…. apart from what we are doing…
Here we go,
Let me share some thoughts what I gained from my experience as a calibration incharge in a company who are basically a non-ferrous foundry and machining facilities with a turn over 2crores INR a month...They are an automotive, electrical component… supplier in INDIA and Abroad....
Monthly we had a order for nearly 120 different types of parts.... Each of them nearly had at least 8 gauges (major gauges- go & no-go, snap, some width gauges, profile...) so it was around 960 gauges and around 100 instruments.... each gauge (instruments & attribute) had different frequency of calibration, depending upon its tolerance, usage (mean to say order of that component) for e.g if the plug gauge is for a tolerance of 0.20mm tolerance we had fixed a frequency of 3 months once calibration. And ...if it was for the same 0.20mm tolerance and a monthly production of 200000 components then its frequency would be once a month………
The way the gauges were issued to the user department was on the basis of the monthly plan. Once the monthly schedule was released for production all the gauges required for that particular month were taken out (as they were kept under lock and key) and we used to go thru our database and see whether the gauge required the calibration or not. If the due date was not going to fall in the middle of the month then the gauge were issued and if it was going to fall in the middle of the month then the gauge were calibrated and then issued to the user department with a colour code on it. The gauge can only be used if the gauge had a colour code on it for that month. All over the shop the colour code board were displayed showing which colour for which month meant the gauge is calibrated. All the gauges were issued to the Tool Crib. The gauges had a unique identification code, which would say the gauge was for which item or component and for what operation. The gauge could be used with no fear on the shop floor. A copy of the calibration result would be given to the Tool Crib for reference purpose. At the end of the month (30th or 31st) all the gauges were taken back from Tool Crib (exactly counting what was given earlier in order to avoid missing calibration dates) and the new gauges were given for the next month schedule…
So the whole story is saying unique identification code, colour coding, and exact release of gauges for that month production…
Any comments or suggestions are welcomed!
Thanks for your time in reading this and your comments are valued....
Here we go,
Let me share some thoughts what I gained from my experience as a calibration incharge in a company who are basically a non-ferrous foundry and machining facilities with a turn over 2crores INR a month...They are an automotive, electrical component… supplier in INDIA and Abroad....
Monthly we had a order for nearly 120 different types of parts.... Each of them nearly had at least 8 gauges (major gauges- go & no-go, snap, some width gauges, profile...) so it was around 960 gauges and around 100 instruments.... each gauge (instruments & attribute) had different frequency of calibration, depending upon its tolerance, usage (mean to say order of that component) for e.g if the plug gauge is for a tolerance of 0.20mm tolerance we had fixed a frequency of 3 months once calibration. And ...if it was for the same 0.20mm tolerance and a monthly production of 200000 components then its frequency would be once a month………
The way the gauges were issued to the user department was on the basis of the monthly plan. Once the monthly schedule was released for production all the gauges required for that particular month were taken out (as they were kept under lock and key) and we used to go thru our database and see whether the gauge required the calibration or not. If the due date was not going to fall in the middle of the month then the gauge were issued and if it was going to fall in the middle of the month then the gauge were calibrated and then issued to the user department with a colour code on it. The gauge can only be used if the gauge had a colour code on it for that month. All over the shop the colour code board were displayed showing which colour for which month meant the gauge is calibrated. All the gauges were issued to the Tool Crib. The gauges had a unique identification code, which would say the gauge was for which item or component and for what operation. The gauge could be used with no fear on the shop floor. A copy of the calibration result would be given to the Tool Crib for reference purpose. At the end of the month (30th or 31st) all the gauges were taken back from Tool Crib (exactly counting what was given earlier in order to avoid missing calibration dates) and the new gauges were given for the next month schedule…
So the whole story is saying unique identification code, colour coding, and exact release of gauges for that month production…
Any comments or suggestions are welcomed!
Thanks for your time in reading this and your comments are valued....