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A new
technology at
Thomas Brown
Engineering –
the Visual FAIR
Digital Pen &
Paper
First Article Inspection Reporting
has been an important tool within
our inspection department for a few
years now. It has enhanced and
simplified our inspection process
and has become an important
part of managing our quality
and maintaining our AS9100c
accreditation on a daily basis. It is
now a vital requirement for many of
our customers. A recent addition to
our Visual FAIR software is a simple
but amazingly efficient and accurate
Digital Pen & Paper. This is a unique
technology which makes the familiar
act of writing First Article results with
a pen on paper into a powerful tool
which makes data capture more
efficient and less susceptible to error.
The Digital Pen & Paper allows our
inspectors to manually collect results
using the pen onto dimensional forms
printed on paper with a unique
fingerprint to the specific job at hand.
The technology then imports the
results directly into the FAIR software
via the electronic pen, simultaneously
populating any required forms such
as AS9102 dimensional reports or
batch data collection forms. These
dimensional reports can then be
tailored to meet any specific customer
requirements.
The process is user friendly, efficient
and has a built in mistake proofing
system which allows the user to check
a box for pass or fail. This pass or fail
result when analysed by the software
is compared to the feature requirement
that has been programmed in Visual
FAIR. A result that is out of tolerance,
but has been checked pass, will
automatically be rejected. The system
also records the time and date of each
pen stroke thus allowing an accurate
record of inspection for each and every
component.
We have had good feedback from
our customers who have witnessed the
technology and seen the benefits it can
offer it terms of accurate inspection
reporting.
For more information please
contact Tom Brown: tom@thomasbrown-engineering.co.uk
WWW.THOMAS-BROWN-
ENGINEERING.CO.UK
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