Ah...it's so nice to see that I'm not the only one who has experienced this quandry. I've come to the conclusion that the Cove is my professional therapy group. Hi...my name is Roxane and I work in Quality....
This is where you're all supposed to say "Hi, Roxane..."
Anyway, I worked in a job where a similar situation was encountered but internally. The result was the development of a program to inspect and verify our tapes.
Daily, the operators were responsible to inspect their tapes for damage, bends, dents, dings, missing paint, scratches, etc.
Twice a year, QC was responsible for doing ye old push/pull method on all tapes to a standard bloc and ensuring that the tapes were still measuring to within tolerance.
Of course, this programme only came about once we hashed out the differences between calibration, verification, and inspection...a project unto itself.
And then determining the acceptable tolerance for tapes....1/8" for production workers, and 1/16" for design and manufacturing engineers. I never did get a good answer why my tape measure had more stringent tolerances than the guys who built our product.
This is where you're all supposed to say "Hi, Roxane..."
Anyway, I worked in a job where a similar situation was encountered but internally. The result was the development of a program to inspect and verify our tapes.
Daily, the operators were responsible to inspect their tapes for damage, bends, dents, dings, missing paint, scratches, etc.
Twice a year, QC was responsible for doing ye old push/pull method on all tapes to a standard bloc and ensuring that the tapes were still measuring to within tolerance.
Of course, this programme only came about once we hashed out the differences between calibration, verification, and inspection...a project unto itself.
And then determining the acceptable tolerance for tapes....1/8" for production workers, and 1/16" for design and manufacturing engineers. I never did get a good answer why my tape measure had more stringent tolerances than the guys who built our product.
