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Get the FAI moving
Start with a conversation about the part and the deadline; we are happy to talk it through. When a quote is the next step, the ballooned print and the CAD are all it takes to get one back with timing.
The CMM side of an FAI handled start to finish: program built to the ballooned print, parts measured, and results delivered in the format the package needs, while the rest of the team keeps production running.
Almost nobody plans for the FAI to be the bottleneck. Then it is. With production hovering over the CMM saying their part is right, management hovering over the CMM asking when it will be done, and shipping hovering over the CMM asking if they can ship it, that's when experience comes into play.
The order came with a first article requirement and a date. The program gets built to the ballooned print and the parts measured before the date stops being a plan.
Design changes, tolerance modifications, and process changes reset the clock on a first article. The existing program gets updated to the new revision and the re-run handled while production keeps its rhythm.
An inherited program reports numbers in an order nobody can map to the ballooned print. Renumbering, restructuring, and a results format your quality team can actually trace.
A new customer, a bigger package than the shop has built before, and a quality manual that never mentioned Form 3. The CMM Programmer has been through it many times and can use that experience to help you and your team with timely, accurate data.
Every characteristic on the balloon list programmed, with the GD&T handled per the ASME Y14.5 callouts, not per the software defaults.
Output ordered and numbered to match the ballooned drawing, so filling the characteristic accountability side of the package (AS9102 Form 3, PPAP dimensional results) is transcription, not archaeology.
Alignment strategy, probe configuration, and run notes, so the FAI results can be defended when the customer's SQE starts asking how the numbers were made.
The measurements, the program, and the formatted results come from the service. Acceptance and approval of the first article stay with your quality system, which is exactly how the standard assigns responsibility. No outside programmer should be signing off your first articles, and this one is structured deliberately so that line never blurs.
Project programming beyond the FAI: see the full CMM programming services page
$125 per hour. It doesn't matter if you have 1 part or 100, The CMM Programmer can handle your complete package: your site, your equipment, your parts, your timeline. The day rate covers the bigger packages, published in full on the pricing page.
Start with a conversation about the part and the deadline; we are happy to talk it through. When a quote is the next step, the ballooned print and the CAD are all it takes to get one back with timing.
