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Sounds like you have oodles of time in your shop! We run three shifts and barely get 5 minutes in between parts to calibrate. It's one of those new, highly advanced shops with never enough time to do things right, but always enough time to do them over.

Sounds like you have oodles of time in your shop! We run three shifts and barely get 5 minutes in between parts to calibrate. It's one of those new, highly advanced shops with never enough time to do things right, but always enough time to do them over.

We don't have oodles of time. That's why I do what I do. We have very large and very small parts, so keeping the sphere on the stage is not an option. If I required people to calibrate the tip angles before each program ran, there would be mutiny. I rarely have to calibrate anything during critical hours which makes it all worth it. Only when crashes happen. We have parts with .060in tolerance and some with .0005in or less tolerance for medical and aerospace, so just letting a crash slide isn't an option for me. We only run 2 shifts, which, is better than 3 so I can find some time throughout the day to perform my calibrations, but even during critical hours I am willing to shut a machine down if my tip correlation isn't up to snuff.
Although, if I only had to deal with .020in tolerances, I wouldn't be near as critical. With those tolerances, I wouldn't shut the machine down unless tip correlation exceeded .002in. (10%)