QDA Gage & Tool Management
- Separate unused gages from the active tool lists and avoid unnecessary and costly calibration.
- Plan calibrations of test and measurement equipment and keep a pulse on the status of your gages with an up-to-date usage history.
- Automate and simplify routine tasks so that you can focus on more important issues.
- QDA allows you to develop easy to use inspection schemes for individual gages or devices grouped into a common category. The software maintains a history of each test and calibration. Applying standardized inspection schemes, thoroughness and manageability to the complex task of gage and tool administration.
- Simplify the collection of the data gathered by coordinate measurement machines or other digital devices by connecting them to your quality system and automatically populating inspection reports.
- Data collected during calibration is automatically fed back to reports and is represented in color bar charts using standard traffic light colors.
- Print inspection reports easily using the standard Microsoft Word or with HTML layouts provided.
- Link quality documents to your gages with master data, and have all the information you need on one screen.
- Reconstruct the history of all devices immediately.
- Ensure that calibration certifications are renewed quickly and easily by having organized real time data at your fingertips.
- Integrate all kinds of electronic documentation, including Word files, Excel tables – even video.
- Arrange inspection schemes intuitively with clear descriptions and graphical illustrations.
- Manage dynamic multiuse gages easily by having up-to-date configuration information.
Advantages:
- Standards Complaint
- Integrates inspection device processes
- Suitable for in-house calibration departments and calibration labs
- Efficient administrative and calibration of measurement instruments
- Freely configurable gage and reporting template
- Extensive user-defined search and filter possibilities
- Linking of document and calibration certificates to the measurement instrument
- Monitoring of calibration and maintenance intervals
- Freely adjustable advance warning time for each measuring instrument
- Tracking of calibration and inspection costs, including identification of the associated user and the department
- Clear presentations of calibration or test status which tags such as active, due, coming due, closed, in test
- Simple tabular presentation for the simple visualization of calibration limits
- Color bar graphical presentation for the simple visualization of calibration limits
- Direct integration of images to illustrate measurement status or results
- Easily generated customizable reports
- Simple and efficient data scheduling and notification
- Fast error-free incorporation of measurement data via direct interface to digital measurement instruments, inductive probes, RS232 machine interfaces and 3D CMMs
- Monitoring of gauges and tools according to user-defined criteria such as due date, location, user, etc.
- Automatic documentation of changes and calibration history
- Minimization of test planning expenditures by using group inspection schemes and development of standard tests
- Integrates MSA with standard QDA inspection plans used for SPC, Incoming Inspection, Laboratory
- Sealing function — freeze the calibration intervals
- Freely definable gage reports (lists, test reports)
- Standardized documentation, formatting and printing using Microsoft
- Word, HTML, XML, csv
- Automated links between characteristics and specifications
- Efficient management of operations and cost
