Solar Atmospheres of Michigan successfully achieved Nadcap AC7101/4 accreditation for their captive metallography laboratory.
The accreditation will allow the Chesterfield plant to continue testing for microhardness, surface contamination, intergranular oxidation and grain size which were all previously completed at the Warren facility. In addition to continued testing capabilities, the addition of new metallographic preparation equipment and metallography software will expand Chesterfield’s R&D capabilities and assist in new product development.
“This was the next step in moving operations from Warren to Chesterfield,” said plant metallurgist Greg Scheuring. “To limit downtime and maintain on-time delivery, we gave ourselves a week to make the move and conduct the audit. It was an extremely abbreviated period of time for such a task but personnel at both facilities pulled together to make it happen. Now the audit is complete with no findings, and we are back up and running. Stellar teamwork all around!”
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