The title of this Blog article might seem like a bold claim, even to good to be true. But, bear with me and check out the product for yourself. It may just change your life. If your role in manufacturing is Quality related, you very likely have spent countless hours ballooning a drawing and creating a spread sheet for a first article inspection record. After you have done a few you may begin to have thoughts of, "I went to college for this? There has to be a better way."
There is indeed a better way. The founders of Extensible CAD Technologies were just like you and worked to create a tool that could automate the process. InspectionXpert is the tool they developed that will allow you to automate the process of creating inspection records and ballooning a drawing. If you use SolidWorks it is literally a couple clicks and you have a drawing ballooned in your desired color on your specified layer along with a complete inspection record in Microsoft Excel. The Excel data is generated directly from the SolidWorks file dimensions, eliminating the time and risk of errors associated with manually entering the data. The resulting inspection record can be formatted to match any current documentation. To take things a step further, you can format cells in Excel to recognize the dimension ranges. Then, when a measured value is entered, the tool can conditionally change colors to display whether the value is in or out of spec, automatically.
Think about the possibilities of taking your quality and quality system to a whole new level. The most common limiting factor in any business is time. If we take hours and turn them into minutes and further limit the possibility of error when recording dimensions, time is then freed up to improve systems and processes. Along with freeing up the document creator's time, training time for the inspector is minimal and calculations are all but eliminated by color conditional formatting within the inspection report.
It does not stop there. InspectionXpert also has capabilities to work with PDF documents and quickly capture dimension info directly from the PDF and generate the inspection spreadsheet. Capabilities also exist for ProE along with other CAD packages, so those of you with multiple CAD packages in your design environment can benefit with a single inspection generating process.
Check out our webpage for more information about InspectionXpert and to see an introduction video that demonstrates how easy the process is. If you want to see a live demo, talk to your Alignex representative or fill out the linked form. I'll personally work you through the ways in which InspectionXpert can save you and your company loads of time and money. Your life may indeed be changed forever.