Automatic Creation of Defect Records
Automatic Creation of Defect Records
Use
The system can create defect records automatically during results recording. The system creates defect records when you valuate the characteristic with a rejection. Depending on whether you are recording results for a characteristic, inspection point, or sample, the system assigns the generated defect record to the corresponding object. Defect records can be generated in the following ways:
Variant A: Generated in the Background
The defect record is created with the corresponding defect code from the inspection characteristic or master inspection characteristic. To generate defect records in the background, the following conditions must be met:
You can store three types of defect codes in an inspection characteristic or master inspection characteristic:
For quantitative characteristics, you can only enter defect codes for the upper or lower specification limit, if you have defined the corresponding tolerance limits. For both quantitative and qualitative characteristics, you can always enter the defect code for a general rejection.
Variant B: Automatic Generation with Dialog Option
This method is essentially the same as the one described above, with the exception that you can enter additional data for the defect in the defects recording screen. The prerequisites for generating defect records using this method are essentially the same as the ones described above. However, the confirmation profile must contain at least one required entry.
Variant C: Automatic Prompt for Entry of Defect Data
The system prompts you to enter the defect data. For this variant, the defects recording indicator must be set for the inspection characteristic or master inspection characteristic and no codes must be defined. If the confirmation profile contains required fields, the system will prompt you to enter the required data in a dialog box.
If you valuate the characteristics in a subsystem, the system creates the defect records in the background regardless of the settings in the confirmation profile.
Features
When the system generates defect records automatically, the following special features should be considered:
When you record results for an inspection point, the system valuates an internal characteristic record after you have valuated the inspection point characteristic. This characteristic record contains the summarized characteristic results for several inspection points.
If this characteristic is rejected, the system can create an additional defect record for the characteristic (even if the characteristic valuation for the inspection point has already led to a rejection). This defect record can be created on the basis of previously described variants (A, B, or C).
If defect records are created on the basis of variants A or B, the system first checks whether the defect code already exists as a result of a previous valuation for the internal characteristic record:
With variant C, the defect records that have already been created are edited.
If the quality notification (in which this defect record is contained) has already been completed, the system automatically reprocesses this notification.
If you change the valuation of a characteristic during results recording, all generated defect records are deleted. This also includes the defects that were created with variant C.
The system only deletes defects for inspection points, if there are no further rejections of the internal characteristic record in the current dialog.