Quality problems? You don’t have to live with them!

Just about every week a company contacts us saying they’re stuck with a quality problem with no clear solution. Do any of these issues sound familiar to you?

  • Our parts meet spec, but they’re failing in the field
  • We can’ t trust our suppliers’ components, because we don’t know what they’re measuring
  • Something changed in our process, and now our parts aren’t performing.

These are really common problems, and they unfortunately drive a lot of companies to make really expensive decisions to try to overcome them—like 100% screening of incoming parts or implementing overly tight tolerances.

Worst of all, the questions often just go unanswered, and we live with the expensive options without solving the underlying issues.

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 The issue: we can’t define “good”

Most of these issues stem from being unable to distinguish good parts from bad. A customer says the performance goals are not being met, but they can’t say exactly what’s wrong. A process that was producing good parts changes in a way that can’t be detected by the parameters on the drawing. We can’t adequately define what’s wrong—we just know it’s wrong.

Digital Metrology helps with these issues every day!

There’s a truism at the heart of what we do: if you can measure it, you can make it. Digital Metrology specializes in helping companies use their measurement data to solve surface texture, form, and roundness challenges like these. Through measurement training, consulting, and software, we help companies to define what makes a quality part—and how to specify and verify that quality. That data can bridge the gap between design and production, between engineering and manufacturing, and between a plant and its suppliers and customers.

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You can leverage Digital Metrology’s expertise in measurement and specification to get in front of quality problems! We’ll help you get past the issues that have you “stuck.” Contact us today to start the conversation.