Generating a Sample Frequency Schedule—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 to be used for scheduling a sample frequency.

Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan – Inventory

  1. Open the Control Plan – Inventory window.
  2. Query for part no. 29-521, Intake Valve.

General Exercise for Control Plan for Inventory

Main Exercises

Scheduling a Sample Frequency

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to schedule a sample (i.e., analysis) frequency. 

Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan – Inventory

  1. Open the Control Plan – Inventory window.
  2. Query for your previously created Inventory control plan for part no. 29-521, Intake Valve.
  3. Right-click in the header and then click Schedule Sample Frequency. The Schedule Sample Frequency window appears.
  4. Enter a period start and end date.
  5. Choose a frequency in year, month, week, or day. If you choose weekly sampling, you need to specify the days under Which Days. If you choose daily sampling, a number between 1 and 31 must be selected for use in the scheduled date calculation. For example, if you enter 2, the creation of the analysis will be scheduled once every two days during the period. If you enter 7, 14, 21, or 28, you must select a day under Repeated Frequency.
  6. Click Schedule.
  7. Verify that the Scheduled check box is selected in the Control Plan – Inventory window.

Viewing the Created Schedule

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to view an analysis schedule.

Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan – Inventory
 Quality Management/Control Plan/Overview – Scheduled Control Plan Inventory

  1. Open the Control Plan – Inventory window.
  2. View the scheduled analysis by right-clicking in the header and then clicking Overview – Sample Schedule. The Overview – Scheduled Control Plan Inventory window appears. Note: This window can also be opened directly from the Navigator, as shown under Menu Path above.
  3. Verify that the schedule you created in the previous exercise is shown.

Deleting a Schedule

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to delete an analysis schedule. 

Menu Path: Quality Management/Control Plan/Control Plan – Inventory

  1. Open the Control Plan – Inventory window.
  2. Delete the scheduled analysis by right-clicking in the header and then clicking Delete Frequency Schedule.
  3. Verify that the Scheduled check box is cleared in the Control Plan – Inventory window.