Data Collect can be used to carry out audits to evaluate a finished product prior to delivery, with the same level of detail as a customer would do. The goal is to find those problems that have not been detected during the normal production process so that it can be addressed within the facility and minimize warranty claims.
Operators can review quality concerns for a part (including the type and the severity of concern) and then re-evaluate the concern as required.
Audits are generally carried out on a limited number of production units in each shift. The exact units that are going to be audited are usually selected at random by an external system.
An audit can be carried out at any point of the production process but is most frequently performed when the unit is complete and ready for dispatch. At this point it's possible to review how many defects would have made it to the customer without the review and it also acts as a safeguard for catching any defects that may have been created in the very last steps of production.
As well as reviewing and modifying the defects created in Data Collect, the operator is also able to record further information. There is a separate defect severity level and the operator can even state how much of an impact on the customer the defect is likely to have.
In order to correctly carry out an audit there are a few steps that must be carried out in other programs before and after:
Form Composer: Create the user interfaces that will be presented to the operator. This will include the following:
The audit creation form (see here).
The audit selection form (see here).
The audit list control that can be viewed in the main screen (see here).
The audit properties control that can be viewed in the main screen (see here).
Cockpit: Create and configure the different possible types of audit:
Type and Revision of the audit being carried out (see here).
Reference to be linked to each defect (see here).
Rules to be referred to while reviewing defects (see here).
Rank (severity) of the reviewed defect (see here).
Importance (audit weight) of the defect to the customer (see here).
Extra information that the operator can enter (see here).
Cockpit: Setup a station, inspection steps, views, products and parts. See here.
Cockpit: Enable the Audit mode property for the station. See here.
You can then carry out the audit in Data Collect. Once the audits have been performed they can be reviewed and published.
Cockpit: Manage audits. See here.
ATS ARS: Generate reports for audit information. See here.
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