It seems that the CNCzone has an abundance of active machining professionals, along with the DIY hobbiests and newbees!

I would like to suggest a sub forum in the Metal Working section for Calibration & Measurement!

Where members can discuss various types of dial indicators, micrometers, vernier calipers, digital calipers, and all the new electronics used to record the measurements in a production run for statistics! (SPC)

Do you think this is a good idea?

Done- http://www.cnczone.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=324

I'm confused!

The New forum is located under: Machine Controllers Software and Solutions

When the topic is mechanical measurement devices and calibration of them!

Why place it in software?

Eric

No kidding :)

Found it, and posted a new thread. But why the software loc.?

I have a total output of, may be, 2 instruments a year right now, and that is a good year. This year it will be one instrument, a cnc router and a cyclone vacuum system (an exceptionally good year). I don't have enough of an output to do any kind of statistics on.

But I have worked with SPC in my day job and highly recomend it assuming you have the amount of output so it will give you useful information.