Quality Assurance in the Metalworking Industry

In the metalworking industry, the focus is on reproducible manufacturing processes, high dimensional accuracy, and continuous process monitoring. Whether turning, milling, or punching—tool wear, machine condition, and process drift have a direct impact on component quality and must be detected early. Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a key tool here for identifying trends in a timely manner and preventing scrap through targeted interventions in the manufacturing process. This is exactly why QUIPSY® was developed!

As one of the first PC-based SPC systems, QUIPSY® has been supporting the metalworking industry for decades with powerful functions for in-process quality assurance. Warning and action limits, trend monitoring, and process analyses linked to qs-STAT® enable a well-founded statistical process evaluation. Dynamic inspection frequencies can be defined based on both piece count and specific characteristics and, if desired, are conveniently controlled via the production data acquisition (PDC) system. First- and last-piece inspections are standard features, as are freely configurable inspection sequences and multi-stage inspection processes—ranging from visual inspections and manual measurements to automatic checks using measuring machines or camera systems.

Supplemented by the analysis of typical production events—such as the most common causes of defects—QUIPSY® supports operators, quality assurance, and production management alike in detecting process deviations early on, systematically analyzing their causes, and sustainably improving manufacturing processes. In this way, QUIPSY® offers exactly the functions required in metalworking manufacturing for cost-effective and standards-compliant quality assurance.