CMM inspection

It really goes either way, here anyways. We have some machinists who are incredibly good at doing there job, so all they require is the report, and how the part sits on the machine. They figure out the rest and quite frankly, they don't want any assistance. Then we have the type of guys who evaluate the data well, write down what they think they need to do, then bring it to me to verify. THEN, we have the guys who cant do anything on there own, they require there hand to be held all the way through. At the end of the day, we are all here to make high quality parts, so if manufacturing wants me involved 100%, then im involved 100%... If they need nothing... then I just go about my day. It has been made crystal clear though that when I help its nothing more than that, help. I don't physically change the numbers in the mill, I don't order them to do anything, so if they screw up, and attempt to blame it on me or my cmm team then the help will stop.

I don't mind holding someone's hand to get a part dialed in most of the time. Don't get me wrong, we have some that just don't belong here, but there are others, who are fantastic machinists, that just really struggle to understand the reports, how moving this will effect that, and so on. BUT, once they get going, they manufacture nearly perfect product, monitor everything they can with hand tools etc. You can just tell they genuinely care about what they are doing, which is becoming a rarer and rarer quality nowadays.

I don't mind holding someone's hand to get a part dialed in most of the time. Don't get me wrong, we have some that just don't belong here, but there are others, who are fantastic machinists, that just really struggle to understand the reports, how moving this will effect that, and so on. BUT, once they get going, they manufacture nearly perfect product, monitor everything they can with hand tools etc. You can just tell they genuinely care about what they are doing, which is becoming a rarer and rarer quality nowadays.