Advanced Quality Inspection Software Offers Many Benefits, But Adoption Lags
Summary
By automating many of the processes surrounding the creation of inspection programs, QIS has the potential to free workers to focus on other, more important tasks, dramatically cut down on human error, and speed up development time, among other benefits. Regardless of what kind of CMM hardware you’re working with – whether scanners, arm-based, optical or something else entirely – today’s cutting-edge QIS platforms will have no trouble seamlessly integrating with them. They also allow you to set, store and select rules, characteristics, features or measurement points to include, reducing the element of human error. When faced with the prospect of devoting a significant amount of time to train workers on the platform in the middle of a challenging labor shortage, those companies simply prefer to maintain the status quo. Another reason is that advanced QIS programs require a paradigm shift in terms of thinking and operations, and the manufacturing industry at large can often be slow and resistant to change, especially when it comes to well-established processes that have worked for years or decades.