Overview of Data Collection
You can enter quality results into the quality data repository directly, as you transact in other Oracle Manufacturing Applications, or using Collection Import.
Direct Data Collection
You can enter quality results directly in standalone mode. You can then update, view, report, and chart these results as required. When you enter results in standalone mode, the data entered is validated, using acceptable values and valid data types, and actions are executed per the collection plan used.
Transactional Data Collection
When you create the collection plans you intend to use for transactional data collection, you can indicate whether or not quality results are to be collected automatically and in the background as you transact. If you indicate that quality results are not to be collected in the background, they are entered using the Enter Quality Results window. Transactional data entry can either be mandatory or optional. As with direct data collection, the data that you entered is validated and actions executed per the collection plan.
Integrating quality data collection with standard manufacturing transactions provides the following benefits:
- eliminates redundant data entry and ensures data integrity since data specific to the transaction -- such as transaction quantities, dates, and times -- is automatically saved in the quality data repository when the parent transaction is saved. See: Reference Information Collection Elements.
- optionally enforces mandatory collection of quality data by requiring that quality results be entered before the parent transaction can be saved. See: Quality Collection Transactions.
- allows you to optionally collect quality results automatically in the background without user intervention
- ensure that quality data collection is timely
Collection Import
You can import quality results data directly into the quality data repository using Collection Import. You can also update quality results data using Collection Import.
See Also
Data Collection Options
Data Collection Fundamentals
Transactional Data Collection Fundamentals
