Columbia's analytical software assures you of quality finished components everytime.
	Our new Helmel CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) can duplicate the method and readings customers get in their inspection procedures.

We have a full service Quality Lab with a full time hands on Quality Assurance Manager. Our list of services includes but not limited to: SPC, Capability Studies, Gage Studies, Control Plans, PPAPs (Production Part Approval Process), FMEAs, (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis). We keep all of our measuring instruments records in our gage calibration software, traceable to the National Bureau of Standards.

We do use SPC as a tool and have data collection stations throughout the shop for our employees to log their readings. Each station contains all the measuring equipment needed. The "Gage Talker Data Collection" system is networked to our Quality Assurance Manager's computer for his monitoring and the storage of data. We can provide certifications as well as data analysis with each shipment if requested to.

A particular list of our QC equipment would include:

Granite surface plates throughout the shop, some with electronic amplifiers for downloading of data on flatness, parallelism and size.

• Sheffield Visual Gage Comparators
• Wilson Hardness Tester
• Stereo Zoom Microscope
• Gage block sets
• Manual OD and Depth micrometers
• Electronic mics and dial indicators for data entry
• Bore gage with electronic readouts
• OD-ID Platform gage with electronic readouts
• Profilometers for checking surface finishes
• Helmel Coordinate Measuring Machine
• Optical flats for checking flatness
• S-T Optical Comparator