1) Calibration Tip: Wringing Gage Blocks
 2) Calibration Tip: Adjusting Gages
 3) Capability Study Guidelines
 4) Endurance: Keep Hope Alive
 

      

"In order to achieve a desired length on gage blocks, it is often necessary to combine lengths in a a process called 'wringing'. Wringing is the process of attaching gage blocks to each other in a manner that for all practical purposes the space between the blocks can be ignored and the combined length is considered equal to the individual blocks."

"It seems a Calibration Training class/workshop cannot be complete without the discussion regarding adjusting of gages that belong to certain departments or employee owned gages. Experienced Toolmakers and Machinists are often reluctant to allow Calibration Personnel to calibrate or adjust their precision gages. This reluctance can certainly be understood and should not be taken personally by Calibration Personnel."

Character Quote of the Month

"People never care how much you know until they know how much you care." - John C. Maxwell

The guidelines listed below are intended to assist in performing a proper capability study for any given process.
1. Select a candidate for the study. This step should be institutionalized. A goal of any organization should be ongoing process   improvement. However, because a company has only a limited resource base and can’t solve all problems simultaneously, it must set priorities for its efforts. The tools for this include Pareto analysis and fishbone diagrams.

Keep Hope Alive!

"Rumor had it that several slaves would be sold the next day. A chain gang would be taken to a distant plantation farther south – at least that was the rumor.
Three of those said to be on the list to go were a slave woman about 25 years old and her two brothers. For some time, the young woman had contemplated escape, but now such thoughts flooded her mind in earnest."