Quality Control in Young Touchstone
Young Touchstone is a company that engages in the production quality heat-transfer products to serve rail, industrial, and power generation industries. The company has more than seventy years of experience and is headquarters is located in Jackson, Tennessee. The Department of Defense is one of their high profiled clients. The company efficiently manufactures superior quality products through the creation of useful ideas and design with processes of continuous improvement.
Recently, Young Touchstone has purchased portable coordinate measuring machine in order to incorporate portable coordinate measuring machine for their products like radiators, oil coolers, heat exchangers and charge-air coolers. The new addition enabled the company to reduce their inspection time by fifty percent. Efforts in achieving superior quality products require that every output in the assembly line, like radiators, oil coolers, heat exchangers and charge-air coolers, to accomplish the strict specifications of the design.
For quality control purposes, a zoom microscope may be used. In the field of manufacturing, product quality scrutiny is demanded. A zoom microscope can deliver because it has a wide range of magnification, be it high, middle or low range. A zoom microscope also features a wide field of view. Also, a zoom microscope is ergonomically designed to allow long working distance. Failure analysis is also possible with a zoom microscope. Another advantage is that the zoom microscope is portable and can be used anywhere in the manufacturing facility, whether it be inside the laboratory or on the shop floor. Even with the rigors of a manufacturing environment, a zoom microscope is durable enough to endure the harsh plant conditions. Furthermore, a zoom microscope is flexible enough to be configured to meet manufacturing needs. Also, there are accessories available for a zoom microscope to further augment its benefits. Aside from these, a zoom microscope is relatively less expensive than other quality control equipment.
Going back to the article, the Quality Control personnel of Young Touchstone conducts their inspection with the use of a fixed coordinate measuring machine. However, some of the outputs were too large to transport to a temperature controlled laboratory facility. As such, the personnel had to make do with using hand tools to inspect the output either on the assembly machine beds or the shop floor. This took a considerable amount of time, resulting to a much more difficult quality monitoring.
With the acquisition of the new equipment, the quality personnel are able to efficiently conduct their inspection of machined features and weld assemblies that will be used in the production of heat-transfer parts produced in-house and those that are supplied by vendors. Such equipment is able to take high-precision measurements and directly import digital data. Because the equipment is portable, it can be used in the quality control laboratory or on the plant floor. Furthermore, it features temperature compensation that enables its operators to measure parts precisely in any environment without the fear of expansion or contraction brought about by temperature.
Whatever equipment a manufacturing company may opt to use, whether it be a zoom microscope or measuring machine, the end goal is still the achievement of manufacturing of superior quality products.
