SPC Collection Software Saves Time and Reduces Waste
Hertzler's GainSeeker SPC
HyTech
Spring and Machine, founded in 1984, was recognized as an
outstanding business in Allegan County, Michigan, and one
of the fastest-growing private companies in the state. The
Plainwell-based corporation was collecting statistical process
control data by hand and realized the unnecessary amount
of time this wasted. The company began looking for a product
that would replace its current SPC collection method.
HyTech wanted to find a software product that would not
only collect, manage, analyze and report information, but
would also be flexible enough to fit the company's particular
needs and be compatible with its existing ERP system. After
researching products from a number of companies, HyTech
chose Hertzler Systems' GainSeeker SPC.
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Midwest Machining Company Implements Real-Time Process
Control
High Tech's Micronite
Gormac
Products, located in Racine, Wisconsin, is a typical job
shop with a mix of short run and high-volume jobs. Gormac
operates more than 90 machines--including Swiss CNC lathes,
Swiss automatics, centerless grinders, multiple-spindle
diamond bore finishing equipment and machining centers--and
manufactures high-precision turned parts for automotive,
aerospace, fluid power, medical and other applications.
Due to competitive demand for zero-defect product quality
and improved productivity, Gormac began a search for a computerized
process control system suitable for a diversified job shop.
Gormac selected the Micronite system, developed and marketed
by High Tech Research Inc. in Deerfield, Illinois. Micronite's
system provides protection against ordinary errors in tool
adjustments and changes, and helps uncover and eliminate
assignable causes of variation.
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Height Gage Helps Pennsylvania Shop Raise Quality Levels
Fowler's Trimos V-300 Height Gage
IMAC Systems Inc., a 20-year-old
distributor of gas meters, was looking to upgrade its ability
to measure diameters to hundred-thousandths of an inch,
to finish grindings of inner and outer diameters, and to
shorten and rerun CNC processing programs. The 3,300 square-foot
plant manufactures controls for measuring natural gas flow
equipment.
The company has made a major investment in quality in
order to qualify for government contracts for U.S. Army,
Navy and Air Force fixtures, hardware and assemblies used
in ordinance, helicopter and jet aircraft for its own flow
measuring equipment and its commercial machine shop operations.
As a result, the company no longer relies on older metrology
equipment. Instead, IMAC acquired high-technology height
gages, OD/ID grinders and computer-compatible CNC machinery
and turning centers. IMAC turned to Fowler for its Trimos
V-300 height gage and the Kellinberger ID-OD grinder.
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Golf Club Manufacturer Implements Quality Management System
MetricStream's Quality*Stream
TaylorMade-Adidas Golf is one
of the largest golf club manufacturers in the world. The
company's metalwoods, irons, wedges and putters are widely
used by professionals on the PGA tour.
TaylorMade uses a complex supply chain in its global operations.
Suppliers from many continents cooperate in manufacturing
the thousands of variations in a club, such as lie, loft
and face-angle, that give professional and amateur golfers
the performance they seek. The company has to manage hundreds
of process attributes on each club--measurements taken at
different times and locations--to ensure minimal variance
and maximum adherence to standards.
A need for an enterprisewide footprint for supplier quality
was realized. Quality*Stream, a QMS from MetricStream, seemed
to fit the bill.
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