>> If you have not received the current maritime edition, and would like a subscription please Click Here to subscribe now.
- Introduction to Environmental Regulations in the Maritime Industry
- A National Disgrace: The Failure to Compensate the U.S ...
- MITAGS & PMI Now Offering USCG Approved ECDIS Courses
- Mailbag July 6, 2010
- PMI Offers Successful Safety Management - A Practical Primer
- Maritime Domain Awareness: Global Maritime Information Sharing
- Disaster In The Courts, Disaster In Piracy-Infested Waters
- IMO, Shipping Industry, Seafarers Seek UN Response To Piracy
- Goltens New Middle East Facility
- Beyond Petroleum…...A Global Impetus for Clean Energy
- Virtual Learning Through Webinars
- Obama’s “State of the Union” Speech: Trying to Recapture ...
- MarEx Mailbag:
- Thursday Morning Quarterback: Rethinking the Panama Canal Expansion
- MarEx Podcast:
PressReleases 
Articles InterTech Development Company Expands Test Fixture Design Services to Help Marine Product Component Manufacturers Meet Gage R&R Requirements
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Worldwide marine product component manufacturers seeking to eliminate the costs associated with high defect rates in test-intensive assembly and test operations and wasted engineering efforts—often over the course of weeks or months—to re-engineer production systems to meet minimal Gage R&R standards can now enlist the services of InterTech Development Company’s Applications Laboratory for test fixture design services – see http://www.intertechdevelopment.com/instrumentation_detail.cgi?id_num=146.
Jacques Hoffmann, President and Founder of InterTech Development Company explains that this stepped up effort to address inadequacies in fixture design is in response to the widespread misconception that high precision leak detectors and other test instrumentation can work without comparable attention to high precision fixturing. Hoffmann comments, “A classic example I found was in an automotive plant I recently visited to help them design a turnkey leak testing solution for a fuel injection component that needed to achieve very low leak standards – 0.03 sccm-- at very high pressures—3000 PSI. They had specialized leak detectors in place that they thought would suffice for their application, but the problem was in the test fixture design, which had the 15 micron Ra that is common. They did not know that the added expense for a near mirror finish fixture (2L lapped finish) was absolutely essential to prevent seal creep. But these superior leak detectors did not deliver the type of consistent test results they had expected. Why? The 16 micron Ra of the test fixtures was nowhere near as precise as the real world requirements. Very precise featuring to tolerances of 10 microns or less were needed. The 2L lapped finish that fixed their problems DID cost more. High precision fixturing always does—but you pay for better fixtures to keep the expense of quality problems and not achieving Gage R&R out of the equation.”
www.intertechdevelopment.com
