Product Engineering - Quality Management

How To : Process Check Sheets

A Check sheet is created based on the settings in the measurement template and attached to the measurement. The measurement is created either manually through the Create Incident Wizard or automaticlly from a Process trigger. The check sheet page consists of 3 fast tabs:

  • General - Shows the source fields as captured through the incident.
    The following fields should be noted:
    • Quantity Inspect - Based on the Sample settings in the measurement template these fields show how many samples have to be inspected and how many samples have been inspected.
    • Quantity Accept - The "Acceptable Rejection" field is used for the AQL sampling method and shows how many of the samples are allowed to be rejected. The Accepted field shows how many of the samples have the status accepted.
      NOTE: Accepted only applies to samples, when a check sheet has only questions with a "Dcoument" scope this field is not updated.
  • Lines - Lists the Questions to be completed by the inspector.

Process

To process a check sheet follow these steps:

  1. Complete the Question(s). Questions can apply to the entire document or to a specific sample. Type the answer in the Result field, QM will retrieve the following fields:

    • Result Status "Accepted", "Rejected" or "Ambiguous"
    • The Footer of the Lines fast tab will show the Target Values for the selected questions, a Target Value will set the Result Status to Accepted.
    • A Numeric question can also lead to an "Ambiguous" result status. Usually the answer is at the outside of the tolerances. To Accept this result the "Manual Accept" field has to be checked.
    • Line Score: The calculated value of question weight * answer score.
      NOTE When the question is of the type Parent a Yes answer will expand the subset of questions for that parent. With a No answer the subset will remain collapsed.

  2. Complete the Checksheet(s). When all questions are answered use the "Complete" action in the ribbon to validate the check sheet.

    • When not all questions are answered an error will be shown.
    • The value for the "Accepted" field will be calculated, when To Inspect = Accepted the "Result Status" for the checksheet will also be set to "Accepted", otherwise "Rejected".
    • When check sheet rating is set the "Weighted Average Score" will be calculated with which the "Check sheet Rating" is determined.

  3. "Sign-off" the check sheet The inspector can override the Result Status (except when the sampling method is AQL) and, optionally, explain the decision by selecting a "Result Status Reason Code".

NOTE: When a new check sheet is created some questions might be answered already and marked as re-test based on the "Skip in re-test" setting in the Question Set Setup.

Registered Checksheets

When a measurement is registered also all the checksheets for the measurement are registered as separate entities. In the Archive menu on the role center you will find:

  • Registered Measurements
  • Registered Checksheets
  • Measurement Register
  • Closed Incident Entries

See also

Tasks

Reference

Quality Management