The goal of today’s industrial facility is to exceed their customers’ expectations for quality in the products they produce, and the foundation for meeting that goal is the measurements (or control of the measurements) system used to determine the status of the quality. This book examines what national and international standards actually say, and don’t say, about the application and control of inspection, measurement, and test equipment. In easy-to-follow detail, it discusses how to build a strong system that meets both the letter (and the intent) of these standards by designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining an inspection, measurement, and test equipment control system as required to achieve and sustain ISO, QS, or TS certification.
Introduction
Acknowledgments and References
Chapter 1 : Why Control Instruments?
Chapter 2 : Artifact Standards
Chapter 3 : Protocol Standards
Chapter 4 : Getting Started
Chapter 5 : Common Outsourced Calibrations
Chapter 6 : Scheduling Outsourced Calibrations : Tips and Tricks that Can Save Time and Money
Chapter 7 : Learning, Understanding, and Conquering Thermal Effects in Industrial Measurement
Chapter 8 : What You Can’t (Not) Know about SPC
Chapter 9 : Introduction to Measurement System Analysis (Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility)
Chapter 10 : Elements of a Measurement
Chapter 11 : “Know the Uncertainty” is Not an Oxymoron (an Introduction to Uncertainty Concepts and Contributors)
Chapter 12 : Uncertainty Part Two : Budgets and Estimation Concepts
Chapter 13 : Selecting and Implementing Software
Chapter 14 : Developing a Smooth Flow
Chapter 15 : Out-of-Calibration Situations
Chapter 16 : The Gage is Calibrated and Issued, But the Readings Don’t Seem to be Right
Chapter 17 : Evaluating Training Needs and Concepts
Chapter 18 : Training “By the Numbers”
Chapter 19 : Putting it All Together
Index
