AN ISO Story 03/11/2011
ISO9001:2008
The ISO9001:2008 Plaque is in, so it's official for another couple of years! ...Sometimes we hear people say that ISO is just all paperwork and a waste of time... Here is an interesting story that really quantifies what ISO is about... , We were running a production job that by procedure had to fixture a tricky-orientation group of parts on a pallet in mid-process. Everyone knew the potential problem but instead of nodding our heads and agreeing that we'll never make THAT mistake, we made a simple, pinned fixture to check orientation of loaded blanks in the pallet before the process began.
After 3 years of making the part, vacation put a newer machinist on the job. The pallett was loaded with the expensive in process parts, and the pallett verification that was in our procedure that he had to sign off on failed, before the part was run! This in-process check saved over $9000.00 in scrapped aerospace parts, not to mention saving about 4 weeks worth of would-be delay to our customer. ISO WORKS!, and we're proud of our system.
After 3 years of making the part, vacation put a newer machinist on the job. The pallett was loaded with the expensive in process parts, and the pallett verification that was in our procedure that he had to sign off on failed, before the part was run! This in-process check saved over $9000.00 in scrapped aerospace parts, not to mention saving about 4 weeks worth of would-be delay to our customer. ISO WORKS!, and we're proud of our system.
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