Defense Contractor

"Our precision gages keep disappearing"

AutoLocker controls gages and calibration, pays for itself in 60 days

Problem:

A mid-size defense manufacturing company was losing from $6,000-$10,000 a month in precision measuring tools from an honor-based gage lab. They needed to cut the loss of gages immediately. But they also needed to maintain a high level of availability of the tools to the workforce, to insure quality control on the plant floor. They also wanted to increase visibility of gages on the floor, to improve the ability to maintain good gage calibration recall procedures. The current system provided a calibration recall procedure, but couldn't give the system administrator any location on where the gage was.

Management knew it could solve the problem by manning the gage lab on all three shifts. Unfortunately, corporate wouldn't allow any additional head count.

Solution:

Add AutoCrib AutoLockers, to provide 100% accountability of not only who takes or returns a gage, but also what department and work center the employee is from. With AutoLocker, the company now also tracks the job and part number the employee is working on. Additionally, the gage calibration software notifies in real time any gage that falls out of calibration. If the gage is in a locker, that locker refuses to open its door. And, if the gage is on the floor, the system administrator is instructed as to who has it and where it is.

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