最後更新：2026.06.22
2026.01.12 | Project Lead: Chi-Tang Cheng | Machinery Manufacturing – Calibration Management – Equipment Management
About this case: This article shares a real-world project in which a large machinery and equipment manufacturer deployed the MiDFUN MSA Calibration Management System and the MiDFUN TPM Equipment Management System. The MiDFUN MSA Calibration Management System is a measuring-instrument calibration management solution designed specifically for manufacturing, providing instrument ledger management, automated calibration scheduling, electronic calibration reports, and standard-gauge traceability. The MiDFUN TPM Equipment Management System provides equipment history maintenance, work-order-based maintenance management, fault and repair records, and more, helping companies achieve unified management of calibration and equipment maintenance.
MiDFUN was founded in 1993 and has more than 30 years of expertise in manufacturing quality management, focusing on solutions such as SQM supplier quality management, SPC statistical process control, MSA calibration management, TPM equipment management, and FMEA failure mode analysis.
Customer Background
Winner Hydraulics Corporation (brand: WINNER; hereinafter “Winner”) was founded in 1993 and is an internationally renowned manufacturer of screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves, manifold blocks, and mini power units. Winner has always been committed to the pursuit of excellent products, and its current 80,000-square-meter plant area is a testament to years of resilience and diligence.
Winner’s products are now sold in more than 60 countries worldwide, making it a leading international designer and manufacturer of power units and high-performance screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves. To meet international customers’ stringent quality requirements, especially quality management system standards such as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949, Winner has extremely high demands for the stability of its production equipment and the accuracy of all measuring instruments and gauges. Its plant houses hundreds of measuring tools and inspection devices, as well as hundreds of large production machines.
Core Project Challenge
To ensure that the calibration of all instruments and gauges met requirements under a highly complex and strict quality system, and to improve overall production equipment management efficiency in order to reduce downtime and maintain product yield, Winner decided to deploy the MiDFUN MSA Calibration Management System and the MiDFUN TPM Equipment Management System to achieve unified management of calibration and equipment maintenance.
Pre-Deployment Pain Point Analysis
Before deploying the MiDFUN systems, Winner’s calibration and equipment management relied mainly on traditional paper-based operations and scattered spreadsheets, leading to multiple problems in efficiency and risk control:
Calibration Management Pain Points
| Pain Point | Problem Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Paper-based operations and scattered data | With a huge number of instruments, calibration records, reports, and certificates were all on paper or scattered across individual computers | Difficult to retrieve and audit quickly; complete supporting evidence could not be provided in a short time during audits, and scattered data created information silos |
| Calibration cycles hard to track | Lack of automated reminders; reliance on manual table lookups for verification | Overdue calibration (Out-of-Tolerance, OOT) could easily occur, leading to the use of uncalibrated instruments, directly affecting the accuracy of product measurement results and creating quality risks |
| Complex standard-gauge traceability | The traceability chain for the calibration status and usage records of in-house standard gauges (Master Gauges) was too long | Difficult to manage and hard to prove the validity of the product inspection process, affecting international certification and customer trust |
Equipment Management Pain Points
| Pain Point | Problem Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| No lateral coordination in equipment maintenance | Equipment maintenance staff did not share information with one another | Unable to determine whether an equipment fault had been repeatedly reported for repair |
| Low fault analysis efficiency | Because of paper-based processes, data analysis and statistics were difficult | Unable to effectively compile statistics on fault causes and handling, and unable to solve problems at their root |
| Uncontrolled asset changes | Processes such as instrument transfer, scrapping, and external calibration/repair lacked unified management | Ledger data did not match physical status, asset stocktaking was difficult, ledger and physical records were inconsistent, creating asset loss risk |
MiDFUN MSA+TPM System Solution
The MiDFUN MSA Calibration Management System and the MiDFUN TPM Equipment Management System provided Winner with a comprehensive solution that effectively addressed the problems above:
Solution 1: Information Centralization and Digitization
Establishing electronic calibration histories: Through the MiDFUN MSA System, all instruments were assigned a unique identifier, and their specifications, calibration standards, historical records, repair records, and more were all archived electronically. Auditors can quickly review the complete lifecycle data of any instrument simply through the system.
Process digitization: The MiDFUN MSA System introduced change-process handling for instrument transfer, scrapping, and external calibration/repair, ensuring that ledger data and physical status are synchronized in real time and resolving the ledger-physical mismatch problem.
Solution 2: Automated Scheduling and Risk Early-Warning
Intelligent scheduling engine: Based on the preset calibration cycle, the MiDFUN MSA System automatically calculates the next calibration date and incorporates it into the schedule plan.
Multi-level early-warning mechanism: For overdue instruments, the MiDFUN MSA System sends reminders via email or by opening the system notification panel, ensuring calibration staff can arrange work in advance and minimize overdue risk.
Independent control of standard gauges: The MiDFUN MSA System sets up an independent and stricter calibration workflow for standard gauges, ensuring that the standard gauges used to calibrate general gauges are themselves absolutely accurate and traceable.
Solution 3: Unified and Systematized Internal Repair Process
Fault traceability analysis: When production equipment becomes abnormal or product quality fluctuates, maintenance staff can use the MiDFUN TPM System to reverse-query the calibration status of the instruments used at the time to inspect and adjust that equipment. If an instrument’s calibration is found to be overdue or close to going out of tolerance, the root of the problem can be quickly identified, avoiding repeated repairs.
Optimizing maintenance decisions: Through the data analysis capabilities of the MiDFUN TPM System, Winner can more scientifically set calibration cycles and equipment maintenance strategies, advancing from preventive maintenance (PM) to the level of predictive maintenance.
Deployment Benefits
Through the deployment of the MiDFUN MSA Calibration Management System and the MiDFUN TPM Equipment Management System, Winner Hydraulics Corporation successfully achieved systematized and automated calibration management, providing a solid quality assurance for its high-precision manufacturing process:
| Benefit Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Lower calibration overdue rate | After deploying the MiDFUN MSA System, the calibration overdue rate was effectively reduced |
| Higher audit efficiency | During external audits, data retrieval time was shortened from hours to minutes |
| Optimized equipment availability | Through the data integration of the MiDFUN TPM System, maintenance troubleshooting time was shortened, indirectly improving equipment availability |
| Compliance with international standards | Ensures all measurement data is traceable, providing strong system support for high-standard quality certifications such as IATF 16949 |
| Data transparency | Management can view the status of all instruments and equipment in real time, greatly shortening decision time |
| Labor savings | The manpower invested in reviewing calibration documents and records is gradually reduced |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Does your company also have calibration management or equipment management needs?
- A large number of instruments, with calibration cycles hard to track
- Unable to quickly provide complete calibration records during audits
- Equipment maintenance information is scattered, and fault causes are hard to trace
- Need to meet international quality standards such as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949
MiDFUN has more than 30 years of expertise in manufacturing quality management, and its consulting team has rich practical experience in MSA calibration management and TPM equipment management, providing complete quality management solutions.
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