TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING AND VISUALIZING DEFECTS IN MANUFACTURED PARTS

摘要

A system and method for annotating defects in a part to be inspected includes a plurality of defect annotations for the part where each of the defect annotations has a type and a severity, and a Computer Aided Design (CAD) model of the part stored on a nonvolatile memory where the CAD model includes of a plurality of geometrical features where each of the geometrical features is optionally associated with one or more of the plurality of defect annotations.