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Need help!!! Need Out Of Tol warning pop-up

daberger
I have been having an issue with our night shift operators that cant seem to read their reports before sending them along to the next op. AngryAngryAngryAngry This is the 3rd time that parts have been sent back because a bad report was sent to a customer. Each group that is returned has to be 100% inspected, costing 20+ hours of inspection time. This has got to stop. I was wondering if there was a way to make a dialog box pop up if a dimension registers out of tolerance. Anything would help!

I greatly appreciate any help.
  • You could also include an output to a text file to log when a part is ran OOT.

    or have an email be sent out as a result.
  • I have tried to convince management that this is a discipline problem, but they are convinced that it will not change anything. This is the route they wanted me to look into so I am just trying to make them happy.

    Wow, they know the employees are un-trainable.

    You know... we do offer robotic integration from our Custom Solutions group.
  • You could also include an output to a text file to log when a part is ran OOT.

    or have an email be sent out as a result.

    Or use the Notifications in PC-DMIS 2015 to control power to the CMM...
    (OK, it's not directly possible to control power, but as the Notifications can control a flashing light, it could as well control a relay for the power)
  • "ooook ook ook, ooook oooook okkkk!"

    I think you should be prepared to run - calling an Orangutang (especially a literate one) 'monkey' is a recipe for retaliation...
    Slight smile
  • AndersI, here in the states it is assumed that the company's Human (or primate) Resources department filters out prospective bad employees by asking on job application (am paraphrasing here) something like:

    For government statistical purposes only, please check your species:

    a) H0mo Sapiens
    b) Neanderthal
    c) H0mo Habilis
    d) General Primate
    (this is where it gets tricky)
    If you answered d, please specify:
    d1) orangutan
    d2) howler monkey
    d3) cave monkey

    I concur that it can create a nasty workplace environment when cross-species slurs are allowed. (a knuckle-walker's equivalent of a 'your momma' joke)
    ouch! Sunglasses
  • OOT features are indicated in red, right?
    It's not clear for them that if they see something in red, they have to stop and verify closely, measure again, or something?
    Not necessarily. Edit Dimension Color allows you to change the colors to anything you want quite easily. I change color a lot just to make graphics more visible on B&W printers. Relying on red (or any color) to determine if a part is good/bad is foolish IMO, it promotes intellectual laziness and can (will) backfire on you.

    I have tried to convince management that this is a discipline problem, but they are convinced that it will not change anything. This is the route they wanted me to look into so I am just trying to make them happy.

    Enforcing discipline will not change anything??? Sounds to me like mngt is the problem!

    So management doesn't want to deal with it so they throw it back at you. Wonderful isn't it? Neutral face
  • Relying on red (or any color) to determine if a part is good/bad is foolish IMO, it promotes intellectual laziness and can (will) backfire on you.


    +1
    We, at our company determined 4 place decimal reporting (inches) would be the standard for our CMM reports. However, many of the inspectors would (as you mentioned) 'inspect to color'... of course, they were looking for red. It would then be necessary to ask them how they'd write up a non-conformance when the OOT was .0000 ?? (albeit in red)
    Woody, you are spot on about it promoting intellectual laziness. What's next? Asking Hexagon coders to create a talking report?
    I think Josh was onto something with the robotic integration solution. If threatened with replacement by such a technology, perhaps they would exercise the melon atop their neck a bit more?
  • You could even use a full-screen comment box, stating that there are out oot dimensions.

    Would be a hard argument of "I didn't see it."
  • What's next? Asking Hexagon coders to create a talking report?

    Well, you could just make an IF/THEN OOT check that would run an MP3 or some sound file with something like 'hey stupid, your part is bad'.
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