NEAR MISS??!!

[[Li...]]

I heard through the grapevine that our newly hired VP of operations (I believe) wants to make every "crash' or "red light" while running a CMM a near miss. 

I have not been told this directly, but not sure how or who is going to report these.  

We run pretty smooth on all our CMM's. We have some old Sheffield CMM's. One of them check raw castings which can be very imperfect and have excess material in placees.

I'd like to know if anyone else has ran across this. I have yet to meet this gentleman and really don't know what he is trying to accomplish by calling CMM crashes as near misses.

[[Th...]]

What, like as a safety metric? My employer has had multiple EH&S managers over the years and none of them have ever so much as suggested it. This seems a lot like "look at all the problems my new reporting scheme found" numbers padding.

 

I mean I'll say that there are a few scenarios that might qualify, like if you had an Accura with that speed package that mandated a light curtain, but ALL redlights is going to encompass a huge number of measurement faults that have no safety implications whatsoever.

Edited May 11

[[Ja...]]

I have to wonder if the new VP understands what a CMM crash is.

Like Thomas said the language "near miss" typically applies to safety and OSHA-type incidents in my experience but I suppose he may be wanting to have some kind of metric for CMM crashes to see how often they happen and how often they may result in needing to switch probes/heads/etc.? More from a cost and efficiency standpoint?

I feel like that would be very little value added though with potentially a lot of work and monitoring.

[[Ma...]]

I dont know how to define a "near miss" but if its about tracking the collisions, where they happend and with which speed, i would recommend the Smart Service Dashboard

As far as i know there is even a free version with less functions but in the Full version you can track running times, the parts which are currently running etc. It give you a total overview and statistics. Even for Maintenance:

 

[[Pa...]]

Yep.  We went through this.

Seriously, just go through the motions of reporting every single one.  Be patient.  They will get sick of pointless investigating and needless downtime.