If you use the Enter Quality Results window to enter data, the following rules are applied. Note that these rules also apply to transactional data collection except where noted.
When you enter quality data using a collection plan that has been associated with a specification type, you are prompted to find and assign a specification before you can enter quality results.
For example, if you associated the customer specification type with your collection plan, you are prompted to select a customer specification. You can select a customer specification, a specification of another type, or no specification at all. See: Finding Specifications While Entering Results Directly.
If you define specification limits for collection elements and specification elements, you can use profile options to control which specification limit values are displayed, and whether or not they are automatically displayed (the defaults) when quality results are entered:
QA:Default Specification Target: This profile option enables you to determine whether or not the specification limit values that you defined when you created the specification are the default values.
When this profile option is set to Yes, and you enter results for a collection plan element that corresponds to a specification element on the assigned specification, the specification limits from that specification element are the default values. They are displayed in the specification limit fields at the bottom of the Enter Quality Results window.
If the profile option is set to Yes and you enter results for a collection plan element that does not correspond to a specification element on the assigned specification, the specification limit values are not defaulted, and the specification limit fields at the bottom of the Enter Quality Results window are blank.
If you have not selected a specification, and this profile option is set to No, when you enter quality results for a collection plan element, the specification limits from the collection element are the default values, and are displayed in the fields at the bottom of the Enter Quality Results window. When you enter results for a collection plan element, but no specification limits have been defined for that collection element, the specification limit fields are blank.
Attention: If you have explicitly defined default values for the collection plan element, these values are used regardless of how this profile option is set.
QA:Blind Results Entry profile option: When you enter quality results for a collection plan element with specifications, and this profile option is set to Off, the specification values and limits are displayed at the bottom of the Enter Quality Results window. If you do not want the specification values and limits to be displayed, set this profile option to On.
Suggestion: You can easily determine the source of defaulted target values and specification limits. If target values and specification limits are defaulted from specification elements, the name of the specification appears in Spec Name field at the bottom of the window. If target values and specification limits are defaulted from collection elements, the field is blank.
When you enter quality data, the following rules determine which default values are displayed:
Default Values from Collection Plan Elements
If your collection plan elements have default values, these values are displayed without exception. You can enter default values as you define collection plan elements.
Default Values from Specification Element Target Values
Setting the QA:Default Specifications Target profile option to Yes displays the target values that you entered when you defined the specification elements (not the default values). Deriving the default value from the specification element target value is most useful when it is difficult or impossible to determine a reasonable default value for a collection plan element.
Default Values from Collection Element Target Values
If the QA:Default Specifications Target profile option is set to No, or if no specification element target values are defined, the target values that you entered when you defined the collection element specification limits are the default values.
When you enter quality results in the Enter Quality Results window, dependencies between context elements are enforced. For example, you cannot enter a value for To/From Operation Sequence without first entering a value for Job or Line. See: Context Element Dependencies.
When you enter quality results, the action rules associated with collection plan elements are evaluated to determine whether to invoke alerts, notifications, or other actions.
Collection numbers are assigned by the system and are used to group and track quality results. During data entry, the field shows the word "Automatic". The assigned sequence number displays after you save the data. Once the sequence number is generated, the field becomes a read-only field. You can generate a report to audit all collection results entered. See: Sequence Element Audit Report.
You can enter quality results in different units of measure than those used to define the specification limits. For example, a collection element named Length with a unit of measure (UOM) equal to M for meters is created. This collection element is used in many collection plans at locations all over the world. The specification for Length is defined with a UOM equal to CM for centimeters. When you add this collection element to a particular collection plan, you change the UOM to FT for feet. This requires you to enter the Length quality result in this particular collection plan in feet. The specification limits have been converted and are shown in feet also.
You can view collection plan or specification attachments as you enter quality results. Attachments, which are illustrative or explanatory files, can be used to help guide you through the quality results entry process.