Product Engineering - Quality Management
Design Detail : Manufacturing Integration
The Create Incident action provides an ad-hoc option to create incidents and their measurements from the Prod. Order Line and the Prod. Order Components. Additional functionality has been created to enable integration from the routing. Since Microsoft does not provide Event Publishers in Manufacturing (other than the standard table events) QM is adding these based on the Standard Tasks to create an integration to the actual Manufacturing process.
A Standard Task template has been created providing 2 additional fields:
- Measurement Template.
- Routing Status Trigger: [blank], Planned, In Process, Finished.
This trigger determines when in, or before, the production process the measurement is started. Standard Tasks can be added to operations in a routing and will be copied to the Prod. Order routing when the production order is refreshed.
Note: As a design choice QM is not using the Standard Task Quality Measure as QM stores this type of data in Check Sheets.
With these setting you can determine when in the manufacturing process the Incident to create a Measurement is triggered:
- [blank] Use the "Create Measurement" trigger from the Refresh function.
- Planned This status is to be set manually.
Both these options assume that work preparation creates all measurements and their check sheets before the production operations actually start. - In Process set when postings are made to the operation. This status is set by Dynamics NAV.
Assumes that measurements and their check sheets are created when the operation has actually started and process data needs to be checked and / or recorded. - Finished set when the operation is marked as finished. This status is set by Dynamics NAV.
Assumes that measurement and their check sheets are created when the operation has completed and the end result need to be verified.
Standard Tasks can also be triggered with the Refresh action. The Request Page of this action has been extended with an additional option Create Measurements. This option works in combination with the Calculate Routings option in the same request page.
When both are true the program will go through the Prod. Order Routing and for each operation where a Standard Task is specified with a Measurement Template and the Operation Status Trigger is [Blank] an Incident and Measurement will be created.
The combination with the Calculate Routing option means that when the Routing is not (re)calculated also the standard tasks are not evaluated for measurements. Leaving the Create Measurement option of means you can (re)calculate a routing without evaluating the standard tasks for measurements.
Note: When you want to prepare your documents before production starts you always have to run the refresh function. Otherwise the measurements will be created automatically when the production has actually started or is finished.
The Incident, triggered by the standard task, will be created for the Item from the production order line where the production order line becomes the source record. The Operation No. + Description from the operation is copied to the source description of the incident.
See Also
Tasks
How To : Use the Standard Task template
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