Medical Contract Manufacturer Proves Business Case for Robotic Gauging

The company claims immediate savings of more than 50 hours per week of inspection time.

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New Scale Robotics

New Scale Robotics has released a new case study video with Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, a medical contractor manufacturer in Bridgeport, Michigan. Orchid uses New Scale’s Q-Span Robotic Gauging System to automate QC inspection of its machined surgical drills.

In the video, Joe Farinella, Quality Director at Orchid, explains the business benefits of the Q-Span System. These include:

  • Realizing immediate savings of more than 50 hours per week of inspection time
  • Achieving total gauge repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R) of less than 10%
  • Deployment in less than a month
  • Ability to reassign QC personnel to higher value tasks

Watch the video (2:48) at https://www.newscalerobotics.com/video-qspan-gauging-casestudy-orchid-orthopedics-1/

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