PowerPoint on Why Calibrate & Quality in Calibrations

[Hawaii596]

I am working on the subject powerpoint.  I've been in metrology for about 37 years, and have a good idea what needs to be said, and have quite a bit of experience in such writing.  But, just wondering if anyone has any suggested inputs for details I might forget.  This will be a presentation for non-metrology types, explaining to them what matters and why.

Thoughts?

[silv3rstr3]

That's crazy that you've been calibrating longer than I've been alive!!!  Are you writing this to bring in more business or what?

[BamaKid]

If you provide an outline of what you already have, it might make it easier for us to provide suggestions to fill in the gaps.

[Bryan]

The Navy made a cartoon about it, just put in on and go have a smoke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zplIBfTDuk

There was another narrated by John Astin that was also on the topic.

[Hawaii596]

I feel slightly constrained not to post too much on the internet.  But this will be phase one... A simple powerpoint for not-so-technical people.  Covering why you need to calibrate (not just to pass an audit), etc.; the importance of calibration vendor quality; how low priced calibrations may not be low cost calibrations (you pay in other ways through false passes/fails, etc.); and how to evaluate a good quality calibration vendor.  I am thinking about a magazine article on this a little later.  It is information to share with potential customers teaching them in non-technical terms what constitutes a good calibration, etc.

I could probable share some more in PM for more specific questions.

[briansalomon]

Everyone in a manufacturing environment has at least one process that matters to them. They probably have a good reason to feel that process is already in control and they trust the measuring equipment they have in place but there will come a time when something is wrong, they are not passing product etc..

When that happens they need a professional they trust who can prove if the problem is in their product or their manufacturing/measurement equipment. Once they know that they can fix the problem without delay.

We can also advise them if a check standard would help them. I had one vendor buy an ESI SR1050 decade they are using now to prove between departments if all their Hipot testers are in agreement. This helped them stop worrying about the equipment and resolve the problem with their product.

I have one vendor who only manufactures springs (for small arms) and he only cares about furnace temperature. His customers will find someone else very quickly if he's wrong about that.

Our customers succeed or fail based on being right about key parts of their manufacturing.