Picture voltaic Atmospheres in Chesterfield, Mich.
Picture voltaic Atmospheres of Michigan has achieved Nadcap AC7101/4 accreditation for its captive metallography laboratory. The accreditation will allow the Chesterfield, Mich., plant to proceed testing for microhardness, flooring contamination, intergranular oxidation, and grain dimension—duties that beforehand have been completed on the Warren, Mich., facility. The plant moreover will add metallographic preparation instruments and metallography software program program to broaden its R&D capabilities and assist in new product progress.
“This was the next step in transferring operations from Warren to Chesterfield,” said Plant Metallurgist Greg Scheuring. “To limit downtime and protect on-time provide, we gave ourselves per week to make the switch and conduct the audit. It was a very abbreviated interval time for such a job nevertheless personnel at every facilities pulled collectively to make it happen.”