Specify and Track the Gauge Tools Used in an Inspection

Welcome to the demo of the Specifying and Track the Gauge Tools Used in an Inspection feature in Manufacturing Quality Inspection Management. In this demo, we'll cover how to specify the type of gauge to be used for collecting the inspection result values while defining an inspection plan, and how to enter exactly which gauge was used to collect the results while performing an inspection. You'll see that this feature provides more accurate and reliable inspections, ensuring that measurements are consistently documented and traceable across all regulated industries.

We'll begin our inspection by defining inspection plan as we normally do. I've taken the liberty of already filling out some of the required information, such as the inspection plan details. In this case, I've defined that we're going to create an inspection plan type, an asset type here. We're defining this plan for a pickup. I've gone ahead, and let's take a look at our inspection plan specifications.

I've already gone ahead and defined some specifications for us. So I already have the specification lines. Or I could have done this as I was defining the specifications. But I can go ahead and I can click on the plus sign for my existing line, and you'll see there's a new field here called Gauge. Now, you can define your gauge type in your setup to be either resource gauges or asset gauges. That's where you're storing what you're using for your gauges.

In this case, I've defined my gauges in the assets table. And I'm going to pick one that I'm going to use here to collect tire pressure. In this case, I'm going to use a digital pressure gauge. I'm going to say that's the type of gauge that I want to use to collect the tire pressure when performing the inspection. So I'm going to go ahead and save that. And you'll notice that the digital gauge is now being saved on the gauge.

You don't have to enter a gauge for every characteristic, every test that you're running, but you can. In this case, I'm just going to enter it for tire pressure. And then we will go ahead. I've got everything defined for the plan. So I'm just going to go back to the inspection plan details. And I've got everything I need. So I'm going to approve this plan so we can go ahead and perform an inspection.

So let's go ahead. We'll continue. Make sure everything still looks good. Gauge is still there. We'll continue on. We have some applicability rules. That's fine. And let's go ahead and submit this plan for use. Now let's head back. And let's go ahead and perform an inspection. So we're here on our inspection page and we're going to go ahead and create a new inspection.

We're going to specify our organization. And it was an asset type inspection. And our asset number is Pickup Truck 001. And let's go ahead and find our inspection plan. There's our pickup truck type inspection. And we'll go ahead and create our inspection now. And you'll see that our digital pressure gauges for our tire pressure has been defaulted in.

We can go ahead now. And when I say defaulted in, I just want to be clear that it's coming from the inspection plan. But let's say there's a problem. And for some reason there is no digital pressure gauge available. We can go ahead and we can pick an analog pressure gauge to use instead, and then we can go ahead and specify which gauge we use.

So let's say we use this particular instance. Just because a gauge has not been defaulted in, you can still enter gauge information here, even if it doesn't come from the plan. Let's go ahead and modify the hydraulic pressure. Let's say I've used a digital pressure gauge for my hydraulic pressure and I can go ahead and I can specify which particular gauge I use to collect that reading.

Again, you don't have to enter any values for gauge. It's more of a procedural thing. Of course, you can make use of your business rules for requirements around that, but out of the box, you don't have to enter the values, but you can. And again, what comes in from the inspection plan can be overridden in case the particular type of gauge isn't available. This concludes our demo. Thank you for watching.