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Assessing your measurement system.

By Ludwick, Brad
Publication: Quality In Manufacturing
Date: Tuesday, May 1 2001

To assess any measurement system used in the production environment, many companies use Gage R&R procedures. But these may not be enough for a company that wants to meet current worldwide quality system standards, according to a Measurement Systems Analysis study produced by the automotive industry. Gage R&R only tells about the statistical properties of reproducibility and repeatability and may only reveal the capability of the gages and users-- and not the statistical properties of the complete measuring system as the system is actually used in practice. To know more about your

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