(InterTech: Skokie, IL) -- Responding to the recent rash of reports of quality failures in the medical device and automotive industries, InterTech Development Co. is now providing no-cost consultations on how to develop and maintain strict gauge repeatability and reliability (R&R) for entire assembly and test systems, not just instruments. Having been called in to solve quality issues for global manufacturers for more than 35 years, InterTech’s Testing Applications Lab reports that this failure to differentiate between gauge R&R of test instruments vs. gauge R&R of entire assembly and test systems is at the root of most quality issues on the public radar and those not yet reported.

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