How You Manage Inspections
Integration of Oracle Manufacturing with Oracle Quality Management helps you to inspect at an operation and accordingly accept or reject the inspected transaction. The inspection results you enter and the specification limits set up in the inspection plan decide whether the serial or quantity of an operation can be accepted or rejected.
If you've been assigned a job role your enterprise uses for production operator work, and the Edit Inspection Results (QA_EDIT_INSPECTION_RESULTS_PRIV) privilege, you can use an inspection plan already set up for particular work order operations to perform inspection. You can inspect the operations based on certain inspection criteria. Only after you inspect the operation, the inspection results help drive whether the quantity in the operation is completed, rejected, or optionally scrapped.
An inspection plan can be associated with an item or item category that's being manufactured in your organization. Inspections can be performed at intermediate operations for the subassemblies or at the final operation for the finished product. Currently, process manufacturing can operate in the same plant as discrete manufacturing, as determined by the work method for products being produced. This capability enables you to model, track, and cost for materials and processes using the appropriate manufacturing method for each stage of production. As with discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing supports similar capabilities for in-house manufacturing and outside processing of standard products with the option to enable electronic records and electronic signatures for critical business events. You can design your production process with work definitions, manage production with a material availability check and work order picking, execute production with quality inspection and production exceptions, and perform cost rollup and cost accounting.
There are three different inspections pertaining to manufacturing that can be set up in quality management:
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Work in process Inspection
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Resource Inspection
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Inventory Inspection
Work In Process Sampling
The Work In Process Sampling in Quality Inspection Management provides the ability to select representative sample(s) out of a discrete or process manufacturing work order operation quantity to determine the quality of non-serialized work in process (WIP). You can specify the type of sampling to employ when you're defining your work in process inspection requirements. It's supported for inline inspections at non-serial tracked operations only. Inspections at serial tracked operations will continue to require that each individual serial to be inspected at that operation. You can define quantity per sample with a unit of measure for inspection.
WIP Sampling is supported for inline inspections while performing operation transactions.
For more information about WIP Sampling setup, refer the Using Quality Management guide.
Inspections for Work Order Operations
Navigate to the Review Dispatch List task to initiate inspection for an operation by selecting the required operation from the dispatch list. You can initiate the inspection and complete the operation transaction corresponding to the disposition based on inspection results. If the parent transaction succeeds, the inspection results are saved automatically.
Select the Inspections task from the Work Execution work area or the View Inspections History link from the Edit Work Order page to view the inspection results for specific work order operations.
Some steps must be completed in quality management before you can perform transactions for a work order operation. The following must be set up in quality management:
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Inspection Characteristics
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Approved inspection plans with appropriate criteria
When you navigate to the Review Dispatch List task, you can see a record of work order operations which are in Ready or Reject status. Inspection can be performed for both serial-tracked and nonserial-tracked operations. You can select Quick Complete or Complete with Details to enter the inspection results and complete the transaction.
Once you enter the inspection results, the disposition is decided. Only quantities or serials that pass the inspection, can be completed. If some quantities or serials fail inspection, depending on your privileges, you can perform the reject or scrap transaction. You can also optionally move reject quantity to scrap.
Rejected quantities can be reworked and inspected again from Reject status. A different inspection plan can be configured for inspection from Reject status.
For process manufacturing work orders, the output quantities will be calculated based on the transaction quantity approved by inspection.
Create Inspections
In case of standalone inspections, you can select the Create Inspection task to carry out an inspection for a work order operation, resource, or inventory. You must manually specify which work order operation, resource, or inventory you want to inspect and if a plan is already set up you can use that. Otherwise, you can specify your own characteristics or characteristic groups and inspect accordingly.
Select the Create Inspection task from the Work Execution work area and fill up the following fields:
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Select the Type as either Work in process, Resource, or Inventory based on the following considerations:
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Select Inventory to inspect the inventoried items that may have been created through an orderless transaction. Select an inventoried item in case of Inventory type.
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Select Resource to inspect a resource or the process such as the temperature at which an equipment is supposed to operate. Select the Resource in case of Resource type.
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Select Work in process to inspect a serial-tracked or nonserial-tracked operation. Select the work order you want to inspect in case of a Work in process type.
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You can also fill in other details to make your search more efficient.
Note: The fields dynamically change depending on what you specify as the value for Type.Depending on what you choose as Type, certain fields are required.
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You can initiate a work in process inspection for a work order operation from the dispatch list by clicking the Report Inspection Details icon against the work order operation row. The work order and operation details are defaulted. If the operation has multiple output items, you can select one output item.
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Fill in the item or work center or operation fields depending on what you have specified.
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Fill in the preassigned lot numbers that are populated in the drop-down list of the Lot field.
The preassign lot number enables a standalone WIP inspection against a preassigned lot at the last operation in a Discrete Work Order.
The preassign lot number enables a standalone WIP for preassigned lot for lot-controlled product or by-product at any operation in a Process Work Order.
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Fill in the required Inspection Quantity.
If an approved inspection plan already exists, you can select that to enter the inspection results. Click OK.
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If no inspection plan is defined, proceed to the inspection and select the Add icon to specify a Characteristic or a Characteristic Group for inspection.
Once you have entered the inspection results, click Save to save your changes. You receive a confirmation message if your transaction was successfully completed.