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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.

How many CMM machines do you have?

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.

How many CMM machines do you have?

Three. The bigger problem though is lack of experience in our shop. I program. The others just run parts, and there's about a total of 1 year experience between them.

"so just letting a crash slide isn't an option for me."

It isn't an option for me either. I don't consider a tip falling off as a "crash" though. An inconvenience for sure, but one I can live with under the right circumstances, namely, parts with large tolerances. We have the same range in tolerances you do. If a tip drops off from a rotation, the tighter tolerance parts will get a recalibration without question.

Maybe you missed my earlier question. Would you share your internal verification program?

I guess it matters what you mean by "falling off". If you physically just drop the tip a very small distance like others have mentioned here, inspecting the tip for damage is probably fine. If the program itself causes the wrist to rotate the tip into anything and it falls off, that I consider a crash. Both scenarios I would prefer not to take the chance and run a verification and make a judgment call. I'm personally responsible for my machines accuracy and I don't want to risk anything. Machinists already have a hard time trusting the CMMs. If they saw my machine crashing with no investigation, trust would be few and far between. Everything I do is for my customer. The machinists and the external customer. I'm sure everything I do is overkill, and I don't expect others to follow my lead, but if I hear anyone complain about machine to machine correlation or machine accuracy, they have no leg to stand on.

I usually don't share programs I write because I wrote it on the clock so it's now owned by my employer. That's why I gave a detailed description of what I do. I can definitely help you create one if you need the help though!