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INTER COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE

DATE
________February 13, 1968
CODE
TO - NAME DEPT. DIVISION PLANT/OFFICE
H. Bader, Jr. S&M Engineering Space ________Huntsville_______
FROM - NAME DEPT. DIVISION PLANT/OFFICE
W. P. Wright / J. E. Vaughn S&M Engineering Space Huntsville

SUBJECT:
Trip Report to Detroit, Michigan on February 12, 1968

Monday morning a meeting was held with Mr. Bennett and

Mr. Mosher at the Dodge Assembly Plant to review a problem

involving the checking or verification of proper torques in critical

automotive fasteners during assembly. The meeting was of an

exploratory nature to attempt to define the problem and cus s V

approaches and guidelines. Mr. Bennett stated they were expect-

ing the automotive safety group o elease a list of.fasteners which

were critical and required positive verification of proper torque or

100% inspection. Current techniques involve spot check using hand

approach by manu-
t
f
referre f
torque wrenches after assembly. The t
facturing is to provide a system integrated into the assembly operation
to ive the operator of automatic to que wrenches a positive go - no go

indication of proper torques. Due to the large number of different types

of wrenches and fasteners it is desirable to have a device basically

interchangeable on all wrench applications. fEhere-'i'SCa pos sT6 ill ty~ that

Quality Control may require separate operational check thereby requir­

ing a completely separate system.

Later in the morning meetings were held at Central Engineering with

oblem in more detail and
f
Chassis Engineering personnel to define the t
attempt to obtain a listing of critical 4-> o que items and limits, etc. Mr.

Dick Grasey and Mr. Dave Vail were contacted. Mr. Grasey said that
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