TCR has inspection engineers that are well experienced in performing inspections on Forgings, having done the same for a number of companies as per international quality standards. Our engineers can fill your status reports, corrective action reports and send the same via email upon completion of the inspection activity. Our on-site inspection team members are mobile and can be sent across any place in India. The inspection engineer that are assigned to a Client's account have a degree in engineering and strong experience in forgings and castings. He/She has inspected forgings and castings for many international buyers and are well versed with reporting standards.
Payment terms are at the end of 10 days of inspection work or completion of the project (whichever is earlier). Payment can be made via electronic wire transfer or credit card (using paypal).
In order to ensure tolerances, we require Clients to furnish us with engineering drawings, jigs and gauges as necessary. Typically we will require your supplier to provide our inspection engineer with a Dial Vernier (to measure thickness, diameter, length, width etc.), Radius Measuring device (digital) to determine exact radius as well as a Angle measuring device to measure angles and not just compare them. Should your supplier not have any of these tools, please let us know of the same so that alternate arrangements can be made.
Clients must let TCR know regarding how their supplier in India is measuring angles in Forgings currently. TCR inspectors can measure angle by laying it out on a table and using a protractor with a sine bar. In the TCR lab in Mumbai we have Micrometers, vernier caliper, height gauge, dial gauge set up, pillar gauge, radius gauges, angle gauge and shadowgraph (wherever feasible).
Clients are advised to check with their Supplier if CMM and Shadowgraph facilities are available. If not, TCR inspectors can measure using CMM and Shadowgraph.
If a shadowgraph measurement is needed, our inspection engineer will send the sample to our lab in Mumbai where we will need to make a tracing of various radius and do the matching which will initially be time consuming. This will cover all dimensions and the cost per piece would be very reasonable. Please note that we may have to make certain set up and therefore it may take longer for the first batch. Once the setup is made measurements will be faster for the next batch onwards. In case of sending samples to our lab there will be a shipping charge per piece that will be billed at actual as well. If this method is used the TCR inspection engineer will do an on-site visual dimension check and can then send a few pieces (number of pieces to be defined as per your guidelines) over to our laboratory in Mumbai, India. Upon completion of in-depth dimension checking these pieces will be sent back with our inspection stamp back to your supplier. TCR inspection engineer will make a return visit during a loading audit.
With regards to measurement using CMM, TCR can quote on a cost only after we have checked the sample forging as the cost will depend on time consumed.
TCR inspectors can perform a loading audit as well. Clients are advised to share their parameters for the shipping audit.
Clients must share the production schedule defined with their supplier and provide the inspection dates determined currently.