I'm helping plan an FR10 bracket cell and have inherited a folder that manages to say aligned, released and requires correction without identifying the measured feature. The layout proposal has already removed the old correction bench. Efficient use of floor space, assuming nobody needs it.
How do I establish what that bench actually did before treating its removal as a saving?
Former operator says the two mounting faces were checked against a bench gauge after release. He remembers correcting some parts, but not which production batches needed it.
Does the existing record identify whether the failed dimension was checked before or after correction? I would worry about comparing two different stages.
Ella, the failed readings precede correction. Final sheet is separate and only has a batch number, no individual part link. Callum, gauge is in stores with a handwritten label but no drawing reference.
We had much the same missing-middle problem. The important conversation was with the person planning labour, because they'd already taken straightening out of the estimate. Tell yours the bench question is still open while quality traces the gauge.
It belongs to revision B. Proposed bracket is D, with a changed mounting-face requirement. The gauge cannot be assumed suitable. Planning has reinstated the correction step as an unresolved allowance, not a confirmed operation.
Quality owns the measurement method, with welding and tooling defining a traceable comparison through fit-up, welding, release and any correction. No result yet. The bench stays on the provisional layout.
That's enough to stop the vanishing-bench saving for now. Come back with the current-part result; I'd like to hear whether the old routine survives or was tied to revision B.