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Mic before use Gages?

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Hi guys, we have our ISO audit coming up and every one is freaking out about it. I've been told to make sure everything has a clean and legible calibration sticker, but we have some gages that are "mic before use"/"verify before use" gages and I have NO idea how to label them and my manager isn't helping. We have spots for calibrator, date, date due, and gage number but I have no information for the calibrator, date, or date due because, well, they aren't really calibrated. I don't want to label them wrong because I'll get in trouble if the auditor doesn't like them, but I have no idea how to label them correctly. This was the only place I could think of to get help.

Thanks.
  • For this kind of tools, we have a label "indicator"... Hope this help...
  • You can mark them "For Reference Only" if it's big enough to put a sticker on it. If not, place the item in a bag and label that. I'm curious what type of measurement equipment you have that you "Mic before use".
  • You can mark them "For Reference Only" if it's big enough to put a sticker on it. If not, place the item in a bag and label that. I'm curious what type of measurement equipment you have that you "Mic before use".

    Gage pins come to mind.
  • You can mark them "For Reference Only" if it's big enough to put a sticker on it. If not, place the item in a bag and label that. I'm curious what type of measurement equipment you have that you "Mic before use".

    It is gage pin sets, yes. I can't find any record of calibration at any point. Our surface plate is also 40 years out of calibration so we don't run a very tight ship here. I was worried that "for reference only" would be bad considering we use them on final inspectons/process capability studies/PPAPs so I just put the gage numbers on the set. My manager did tell me to put my initials but I'm not that stupid.
  • We only have two gage stickers. "Calibrated" (w/ ID#, dates & etc...) & "Reference Only".

    In our Quality Manual, it says that "Ref Only" instruments can only to be used after being "calibrated" by a gage that is in our system. It gets very specific about what types of gages can be used to verify the "ref only" ones.
  • We have some tools labeled "Calibrate Each Use". This has passed all of our audits with no issues. Our pinch calipers and bore gages come to mind. For the pinch calipers we verify them using our calibrated gage blocks around the nominal thickness. Bore gages we calibrate using our gage blocks or our calibrated ring gages. It doesn't matter what you calibrate (verify) it to as long as it is a calibrated tool, EX: gage blocks/ring gages.
  • If you need to mic it first than its Reference only.
    No need for a sticker. Put it on a list of reference only tools and forget about it,just like a scale.
    You will need to document how your company handles Ref only tools.
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