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How competence is defined, assessed, authorized and re-verified for the work described on this site.
Disciplines Covered
Coordinate metrology, mechanical repair and inspection programming are treated as distinct disciplines. Personnel assigned to bridge, gantry, cantilever and portable arm CMMs, surface plates, gauge blocks and fixed-limit gauges are assessed separately for each equipment category before being authorized to work on it.
Competence Framework
Competence is defined against documented procedures for each measurement discipline and assessed before independent work begins. Assessment includes a review of method knowledge, instrument-specific training and supervised measurement runs compared against known results. Re-verification occurs on a defined interval and following any extended gap in a given discipline, a change in method, or a nonconformance tied to a result.
In practice our framework runs in four steps, and it runs the same way for every discipline listed above.
How Competence Is Established
- 01
Defined
Each task has a written competence requirement: the method, the equipment, the range, and the evidence that counts as proof of capability.
- 02
Assessed
Capability is demonstrated against that requirement — supervised work, witnessed measurement, and comparison against a known reference.
- 03
Authorised
Authorization is granted per task and per range, never as a blanket qualification, and it is recorded.
- 04
Re-verified
Authorizations are reviewed on a schedule and after any change of method, equipment or standard. Training records are kept for as long as the authorization is live.
Authorization and Review
Results are reviewed before release by a role distinct from the one that performed the measurement. Only personnel authorized for a given discipline may approve a certificate for issue. Authorization is granted by discipline and equipment category, and is withdrawn if a competence review identifies a gap.
Results are reviewed before release. The review confirms that the method used matches the method quoted, that the recorded conditions are within the limits the method requires, that the calculation and the stated uncertainty are correct, and that the certificate says what the measurement supports and nothing more. Only personnel authorized for that task and range may approve the release of a result, and the approver is recorded against the certificate.
Capacity and Continuity
Scheduling across Central Ohio and the Greater Midwest is coordinated to balance on-site visits for larger machines with depot turnaround for portable arms and gauging. Documented procedures maintain continuity across assignments, and escalation follows a defined path if a request cannot be scoped on the standard schedule.
We staff for cover rather than for peaks. More than one person is authorized for every routine task, so absence or a spike in demand moves the schedule and leaves the result alone.
Requirements outside current authorizations are escalated, never attempted. They are quoted through a laboratory whose scope covers the measurement, or declined with the reason stated.
Related Reading
Equipment, traceability and the management system these authorizations sit inside are described on the quality system page.
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Competence records, method statements and scope detail are supplied on request with any quotation.