How are people handling gage families?

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How are people handling gage families in GageTrak?

Here’s some context: We perform MSA on a schedule; not by individual gage, but by gage families. I want GageTrak to remind me when an MSA study is due for each gage family. For example, we have 30+ calipers that all belong to the gage family calipers. We are only required to do MSA every 6 months on any 1 of these calipers.

How would I set this up in GageTrak?

I already have a plan on how to do this, but I want to see what the forum says first before I share my idea.

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I have ours set up like a gage, so it has a due date that comes up on the calibrations due list.

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So this was my idea too. But with 1 other part.

I plan on making a custom field called gage families and assign each gage to a family. Then creating a new gage for each gage family called something like “Caliper Family MSA”. When I see that in our calibration list, I’ll know to do an MSA study on calipers.

But I’m still willing to hear other people ideas.

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That is what we do as well for all types of gages. All of our CMM’s are done yearly but I still have a “family of” for auditing purposes.

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We don’t currently do MSA at our facility, however, I would do a phantom gage. The other field you could also use called “Gage Type” to set up gage families like “Caliper” instead of making a custom field. Operating range field in Specifications would let you specify the size of the caliper like 6", 8" etc.