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I just joined and this is my first post; please forgive me if I do it wrong. My question is: does every characteristic in the part print need to be checked in the regular in-process inspections? To elaborate: I work in a job shop that makes metal formed parts. I was always taught that you should be able to "control" your process with around five characteristics. If you need more than that, you don't really understand your process. These five (or so) characteristics are what you routinely check and control chart. The reasoning being that it is better to check the "critical" characteristics more often than to try and do full dimensional layouts every hour or so. We do a full layout at set up. Some where I work insist on checking every characteristic every inspection, but this means many hours of production occur between checks. I hope I gave enough information for you folks to help. Thanks for your advice
I just joined and this is my first post; please forgive me if I do it wrong. My question is: does every characteristic in the part print need to be checked in the regular in-process inspections? To elaborate: I work in a job shop that makes metal formed parts. I was always taught that you should be able to "control" your process with around five characteristics. If you need more than that, you don't really understand your process. These five (or so) characteristics are what you routinely check and control chart. The reasoning being that it is better to check the "critical" characteristics more often than to try and do full dimensional layouts every hour or so. We do a full layout at set up. Some where I work insist on checking every characteristic every inspection, but this means many hours of production occur between checks. I hope I gave enough information for you folks to help. Thanks for your advice