The Quality Workbench provides an enhanced user interface for entering quality data and performing analysis even in retrieving quality results from collection plans with large number of records or attachments as well as complex parent child plans. Benefits of using the Quality Workbench include:

• Managing quality results by business process. Select from the following four tabs to enter or view results: Collection Results, Nonconformances, Corrective Actions, and Skip Lot Inquiry.

• Viewing the hierarchical relationship between parent and child collection plans. Expand the view to show results that are related in the parent-child hierarchy, then select a view link to view individual result details.

• Entering and viewing each quality result on one page versus by row. The page view shows more fields at once. You must scroll to the right to view all fields by row in the forms based user interface.

• Searching for quality results using several criteria at once.

• Personalizing quality results data entry and views.

• Enabling multiple row entry for standalone and parent plans.

• Displaying defined collection plan elements grouped in blocks during single row data entry. These region blocks are specified using the Region Name field in the Collection Plan Setup form.

• Displaying defined numeric collection element values as rating bars when entering, and updating results for both single row and multiple rows.

• Displaying validation and error messages on the results entry.

• Executing online actions while entering values in collection elements like assigning a value to the collection elements, displaying messages to the operator and rejecting the input.

• Exporting results records to spreadsheets.

• Deleting records that are saved in the workbench.

• Reading or updating data collected from devices associated with collection plan elements, if Oracle Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for Discrete Manufacturing is installed.

• Displaying results in view mode on a popup allowing users to view result details without navigating out.

• Displaying person card links on the Hgrid in view mode allowing users to view person information details.

You can also access the Quality Workbench menu in the Forms Navigator. When you use the Quality Workbench, the organization you are working in displays in the page header. Also, when you navigate from forms to the Quality Workbench, the same organization context is retained. Note that as in Forms, dependent elements remain disabled until the parent values are entered

Quality Workbench supports online actions based on collection element values as well as online validations of collection elements values. You can also use the Quality Workbench to overwrite values assigned through collection actions.