San Diego runs on regulated work, where the measurement routine is a controlled document and a program change is a change to a validated process. We write and prove out programs at your machine, inside your own controls, on your timeline.
San Diego County carries one of the country's three largest life sciences markets, and medical device manufacturing sits inside it alongside diagnostics and instrumentation. Around that core is a broader base of precision machining, defense electronics, and naval and shipbuilding work, plus a supplier network that reaches across the border into one of the largest medical device manufacturing regions anywhere.
What ties the region together for metrology purposes is not the product. It is the paperwork behind the product. Device history records, design verification, process validation: the dimensional result is not just a number on a screen, it is a record somebody has to defend later.
That changes what a CMM program is. It stops being a file on a workstation and becomes part of a controlled process, with rules about who may change it and what happens when somebody does. The CMM Programmer works inside those rules, not around them.
In a shop operating under FDA 21 CFR Part 11, electronic records that support a regulated requirement have to be trustworthy: validated systems, controlled access, and secure time-stamped audit trails that record who created or modified a record and when, without obscuring what was there before.
Measurement software is often part of that picture. PC-DMIS Protect (a function inside PC-DMIS) locks an approved measurement routine, limits edits to specific account holders, and logs every change against a named user and time, with the change log exportable for an audit. Many medical-regulated shops run it. Plenty of others handle the same obligation through their own document control instead. No wrong answer.
Either way, we ask before the visit, not at the machine: is this routine locked, who can unlock it, and what does your procedure require when a routine changes. We would rather spend five minutes on a call sorting that out than show up and discover a permissions wall at the workstation. Once the goals are aligned, the visit is just another controlled change, documented the way your system already documents them.
We do not certify your system or your process. The validated system is yours, the change control is yours, and the records are yours. We just work inside them.
We service customers all around the county and don't mind taking in the scenery! The device and instrumentation cluster running north through Sorrento Valley and Poway, the North County corridor out through Oceanside, Vista, Carlsbad and Escondido, and the machining and assembly base from El Cajon south through National City and Otay Mesa are easily accessible and we are happy to combine trips to save on travel expenses.
That matters for multi-day visits, because two or three shops in the same corridor can share a trip, and the travel costs can go down for everybody on it.
New part programs written and proven out at the machine
An experienced contract programmer on your floor when the need arises, hourly or daily
First article dimensional reports in whatever format your customer's quality agreement calls for
Custom training on your parts, your probing, and your version
$125 per hour and $950 per day, the same rates as everywhere else in the country.
We work inside whatever change control the shop runs: measurement routines in regulated shops are often certified under a permissions manager such as PC-DMIS Protect, which restricts edits to approved accounts and logs every change against a named user and a timestamp, so we coordinate access and permissions before the visit.
Whether a routine is certified, who can authorize a change, and what your procedure requires afterward are all things we sort out in a five minute call ahead of time, so the day starts with the workstation ready and the audit trail clean.
Scheduling for San Diego usually runs one to two weeks out for a planned multi-day visit, and sometimes sooner when we can extend an existing trip to Southern California, since a San Diego swing often attaches to work already booked in Los Angeles or Orange County.
Urgent situations are worth a call regardless. We arrange travel around your dates the very best we can.
Validation of a new CMM program for production inspection is always your decision and your record, because you own the quality system that defines what evidence is sufficient to release a program into regulated production use, and that judgment cannot be delegated to an outside programmer.
We prove out programs at the machine, and we can support first article runs, correlation checks and repeatability studies during the visit. But the final judgment that the program is fit to run production stays where your quality system puts it.
Tell us about the machine, the parts, and what your change control requires. We will do our very best to plan around your dates, and it costs nothing to talk it through first. When a quote is the next step, a follow-up comes back with timing and a straightforward number.
