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The company I work for is an ISO/TS 16949 certified company. We had our first TS audit about 3 years ago and the auditors nailed our maintenance department for not having their gages that they use to check the machines for vibration, calibrated. Then environmental for their refractometers to check the fluid in the machines for not having their gages calibrated. Since then we want to throw everything into the calibration system.
Our heat treat department is now wanting us to calibrate paperless recorders for temperture control boxes. Do we now put the holders we use to hold the parts in place when the CMM is measuring, in the system? Do we put our Carbon & Sulfur Analyzer in the sytem? Do we put fixtures in the system that the only purpose is to where the final auditor will not forget to paint the time mark in the part? We do have a method that we can label a fixture "calibration not required" or "this is not a gage". But do you have to tag everything in the plant?
Our method in the past has been any fixture/gage/equipment that you use to validate a part, and devices that can produce test results should be calibrated. Any suggestions on keeping gage calibrations controlled??
Thanks
Kat.K
Our heat treat department is now wanting us to calibrate paperless recorders for temperture control boxes. Do we now put the holders we use to hold the parts in place when the CMM is measuring, in the system? Do we put our Carbon & Sulfur Analyzer in the sytem? Do we put fixtures in the system that the only purpose is to where the final auditor will not forget to paint the time mark in the part? We do have a method that we can label a fixture "calibration not required" or "this is not a gage". But do you have to tag everything in the plant?
Our method in the past has been any fixture/gage/equipment that you use to validate a part, and devices that can produce test results should be calibrated. Any suggestions on keeping gage calibrations controlled??
Thanks
Kat.K