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PROBLEM: Thickness verification
Your plant is supplying hardwood faced panels to a customer manufacturing expensive office furniture. The sander operator randomly inspects panels approximately once every 2 hours. Thickness specifications must be met or final product will have to be scrapped. Furniture manufacturer employs a sampling method, at incoming inspection. Sample panels are pulled from each load and inspected using a hand micrometer. Sample panels are measured by hand along each eight foot edge, 12" from the leading edge, center and 12" from the trailing edge. Approximately 50 percent of the loads are rejected and returned to the plant.
SOLUTION: UAI non-contact thickness gages with Measuremate software with hand micrometer emulation
Hardwood panel manufacturer installed two UAI non-contact thickness gages, encoder and Measuremate software. The gages are installed along each 8' edge. The system measures each panel thickness at exactly the same points, measured by the customer. A report is printed to go with each shipment verifying the thickness measurement of each panel. Panel load rejections stopped.