Entering Test Results for Inventory—Key Exercises
IMPORTANT |
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own
site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other
site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of
other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be
isolated in your own site. |
Basic Data Setup
Viewing a Control Plan for Inventory
Purpose: The purpose of this exercises is to view an
Inventory control plan used for entering test results for inventory
parts.
Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control
Plan – Inventory
- Open the Control Plan – Inventory window.
- Query for the control plan for part no. 29-521, Intake Valve.
- Verify that a control plan with Active status exists for the part.
General Exercise for Control Plan—Inventory
Main Exercises
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to create an
analysis for inventory parts.
Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan – Inventory
- Open the Control Plan – Inventory window and query for part
no. 29-521,
Intake Valve.
- Right-click in the header and then click Create Analysis.
- The Create Analysis – Inventory window appears. Selecting
the Print Test Instruction check box is optional. For this exercise,
select the check box. Then click OK.
- You receive a message informing you that an analysis has been created and asking
you whether you would like to enter test results. Click Yes.
- The Report Print window appears. Click Preview.
- View the report and verify that the right test operations are listed. Then
close the report.
- The Analysis Results – Inventory window appears.
- Verify that the status of the test operation lines is Incomplete.
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to enter test results
with Attribute data.
Menu Path: Quality Management/Analysis/Analysis Results
- You can begin this exercise in three ways:
Go back to the Analysis Results – Inventory window, which you opened in the previous exercise.
OR
Open the Control Plan – Inventory window and query for your current
control plan. Click the Inventory Analysis tab and select the analysis you created in the previous exercise. Then right-click
and click Analysis Result. The Analysis Results – Inventory
window opens.
OR
Open the Analysis Results window from the Navigator and query for
your analysis. The Analysis Results – Inventory window opens.
- Select the Attribute test operation line.
- If you have entered np or p chart
in your SPC setting for the current line in the applicable control plan,
enter the number of defect parts in your sample in the Nonconforming (np,
p) field. I f you have entered c or u chart in your SPC setting
for the current line in the applicable control plan, enter the number of defects in your sample in the
Nonconformities (c, u) field.
- Right-click on the test
operation line and then click Complete Registered Results.
- Verify that the status of the test operation line has changed to
Complete.
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to confirm test
results. When the test results are confirmed, they can be
included in control chart and capability indices calculations.
Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan – Inventory
Quality Management/Analysis/Analysis Results
- You can begin this exercise in three ways:
Go back to the Analysis Results – Inventory
window, which you opened in a previous exercise.
OR
Open the Control Plan – Inventory window and query for your current
control plan. Click the Inventory Analysis tab and select the analysis you created in a previous exercise.
Then right-click
and click Analysis Result. The Analysis Results – Inventory
window opens.
OR
Open the Analysis Results window from the Navigator and query for
your analysis. The Analysis Results – Inventory
window opens.
- Right-click in the header and then click Confirm Registered Result.
- Verify that the status has changed to Confirmed. Once the
analysis is confirmed, you can use the data for SPC follow-up.
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to create
additional analyses for an inventory part.
Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan –
Inventory
- Create at least 19 more analyses for the inventory part. Note: If you do so, you
will receive a message informing you that an
analysis has already been created. Ignore the message and create additional
analyses.
- Enter test results for these analyses.
- Open the Control Plan –
Inventory window, click the
Inventory Analysis
tab, and view the created analyses. These analyses will later be used in control
chart and capability indices exercises.