Quality Management
Quality Management supports testing of incoming material, finished products, and inventory; inspection of first articles, processes, and items in-process; and destructive testing.
Introduction to Quality ManagementExplains what Quality Management is used for and gives specific details on testing.
Setting Up Quality ManagementLists and describes the required steps for setup, including how to set up control programs, define specifications, set up procedures, and define sampling patterns.
Executing Stand-Alone TestsExplains the functions of Quality Order Maintenance (19.7), and how to enter quality order results, and delete quality orders.
Conducting Process InspectionsOutlines the process inspection procedure and how to report the results.
Conducting Other TestsLists and describes other tests, including inventory audits, first article inspections, process validation, and destructive testing.
Printing Test ResultsExplains how to use Certificate of Analysis Print (19.20).
Introduction to Quality Management
The Quality Management module (19) enables you to test incoming material, finished products, and inventory; inspect first articles, processes, or items in-process; and perform destructive testing. For all but in-process inspection, you manage quality with quality orders: documents that specify what is tested, how, and when. You can define specifications, test procedures, and inventory sampling, and record the results of testing.
Inspection Methods
Testing is generally done in one of two ways:
• As a stand-alone task—at purchase receipt or at an inspection station. For this method, you create a quality order to control quantities and dates. The order provides authority to move inventory, perform work, and route items to various locations after the work is completed.
• As an operation within a work order or repetitive schedule routing. In this case, material is moved to a location where the quality tests are performed. Reporting occurs in the Shop Floor Control or Repetitive modules. For work orders without shop floor control reporting, use Test Results Maintenance (19.13) to record results.
Material that is spoiled, damaged, or made obsolete by an engineering change can be quarantined by changing its inventory status code in Inventory Detail Maintenance (3.1.1) to restrict inventory transactions.
