I'm looking for generic procedures for the following equipment types: 1) pressure gages ( 0-1000 PSI ), 2) vacuum gages, 3) torque wrenches and multiplers, 4) DMM ( anolog and digital ), 5) dial indicators/micrometers/vernier calipers, 6) thermocouple. Would prefer T.O.
Request access to GIDEP. You can pull any DOD procedure that exists.
I'm well aware of GIDEP and it's inventory. Unfortunately requesting an account can become a logistical nightmare and political fight. All those reading this ignore it as I doubt any usable or usefull information will be forth coming. Thanks Silv3rstr3 for the remarks.
Conman
I totally understand your aversion to GIDEP. If I had to do it all over again I'm not sure I would request an account. I don't know whether it is my unfamiliarity with the system or if it is really that difficult to use, but I can rarely find anything of value on it. Even if I find a military procedure that is applicable I take it with a HUGE grain of salt because I know it may or may not be correct or be checking to the full manufacturer specifications.
As always....just my 2ยข worth.
Being that it is against the EULA and it's potentially illegal to share GIDEP procedures. I dont think you will have much luck getting people (especially strangers) to share them with you.
Often, if you can find out the procedure numbers you need, a simple google search will find them.
I ran basically a one man lab at Goodrich/UPCO and I found GIDEP to be invaluable. OlDave is right though, the search engine is pretty clunky and takes a lot of getting used to, but once you have it down you can find a very large majority of your equipment. I remember once finding a procedure on GIDEP written by the lab over at Palo Verde nuke plant for a very obscure bit of test equipment.
You should just get your own account, a decent lab manager or QA boss will understand why you need it.
I have found GIDEP valuable. In particular, the generic procedures for "panel meters" "ovens" and stopwatches were realistic procedures that allows for assigning tolerances based on the users needs. Stopwatches are limited by the humans operating them. OEMs sometimes manufacture equipment without assigning a tolerance. If you get to know where these procedures are, GIDEP does have generic procedures or procedures that allow you to assign tolerances. The fact that it is an industry standard gives people confidence when you cite these procedures. GIDEP is worth having. I have learned that it is better to be thorough and do my homework, then put my advice to my boss and coworkers in writing (that part is important) and then try not to worry about their decisions.
"Stopwatches are limited by the humans operating them"
If you use a Timometer, you can eliminate the human error. See section 7 of this NIST procedure.
http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2281.pdf
Devices do exist for reducing it, but it is obvious that stopwatches are designed to be operated by hand and most of the error when they are used comes from the operator.
I think it makes a lot of sense to recognize that when you are calibrating them. But, to each his own.
The Timometer has a pickup which detects the resonant frequency of the quartz crystal, so you don't need to use your hands for anything but placing the stopwatch over the pickup, thereby eliminating the greatest source of error, human reaction time. The results are displayed in accuracy for seconds/day and seconds/month.
I have read about those but have never seen one.
I was wondering if you had the leeway to write your own procedures? When I write my own procedures, I have found that it seems to take forever for our QA guy to approve them but I have written some very useful ones.
I liked the generic procedure I found in GIDEP for stopwatches because it accounts for a major source of error in their day to day use. I also like generic procedures under certain circumstances for the same reason.