Used CMM From IMTS? Where Your Baseline Begins
Bought a preowned CMM at IMTS with an unknown calibration history? How to establish a defensible controlled baseline before its first inspection.
Category: Calibration & Compliance
Your Tool Presetter Is Uncontrolled Measuring Equipment
The optical tool presetter sets offsets that become part geometry, yet it stays off the calibration register — why that fails ISO 9001 7.1.5, and the fix.
Prove Your FAI Gauge Was In-Cal on the Inspection Date
An overdue gauge can void a First Article Inspection later. Here's how to prove the exact instrument was in calibration the day it measured the part.
Push-Button Metrology on the Floor: Who Owns the Record?
At-line CT and smart gauges move measurement out of the lab. Here's who must own their calibration record, due date and traceability — before the audit.
IATF 16949: The Certificate Is Not the Record
A supplier calibration certificate won't satisfy IATF 16949 clause 7.1.5.2.1. See the four fields your calibration record must carry to pass audit.
40 Identical Micrometers: Bind Records to the Serial
You standardized on identical micrometers. When a recall asks which unit measured the part, model-level records can't answer. Fix it at the serial.
New Gauges From IMTS: Audit-Ready on Day One
You'll sign POs on the IMTS floor. Here's the day-one workflow that makes every new gauge audit-ready under ISO 9001 7.1.5.2 before its first cut.