Do you feel mislabeled or miscategorized?

[[Ja...]]

Are you guys categorized as part of the quality, machining or engineering team? For me, sadly, it's quality. I say "sadly" because our quality leadership has more or less no idea what I do, or how I do it - nor can they interpret the information I present. It's maddening, because I essentially report to the engineering team in every way, but officially. The engineers provide the prints, the CADs, they discuss the results with me, they include me in their projects, they call upon the CMM for verification of the machining centers, etc. The "quality" team is worried about welds and welds only - dimensional quality is lost on them. The real kick to the groin is this inevitably places the CMM under the quality budget. So, when I need a sensor, adaptor plate, extension, stylus parts, etc, I'm met with "wow, these are expensive" and "are they necessary?" Management nearly flipped when our big MMZ-B needed laser mapping last year ($30k.) Life would be so much easier here, if I reported to engineering or machining. Oh well, maybe someday.

Edited 15 hours ago

[[Jo...]]

Hi Jake,

i can feel your frustration, but in the end it is all just categories and names.

I am also placed in quality and glad about it.

At my working place oftentimes engineering can`t follow my train of thoughts and the head of quality is one of the most constructive and knowledgeable guys here.