Product Engineering - Quality Management

Walkthrough : Questions and Target Values

Story

Ricardo is a dedicated quality engineer at Cronus International Ltd. He wants to inspect certain parameters of item 1900-S PARIS Guest Chair, Black.

Pre-requisites

  • Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
  • Cronus International Ltd. demonstration database
  • STAEDEAN Quality Management demo set

To create a question list

  1. Go to: CRONUS International Ltd. > Departments > STAEDEAN Product Management > Quality Management.
  2. Under Administration > Questions Setup, select Question List.
  3. Create new questions.

Example

Question Code Scope Description Type Boolean Value Numeric Target Value Lookup Value
Broken Item Broken Chair Boolean No - -
Paint Item Paint Quality Boolean Yes - -
Colour Item Paint Colour Lookup - - - Black
- Blue
- Red
- White
Length Item Chair Length Numeric - 100 -

In this table, some questions are generic (such as Colour, Length, Width, and Height) meaning they apply to all items that fall under the same category, not just this particular item.

To set numeric values for a question

Set the question tolerances for a Numeric question from the Questions card. The Question Tolerances fast tab is dynamic and only visible when the question type is NUMERIC.

Set the question tolerance value as per the example below:

From Value To Value Score Result Status
100 100 150 Accepted
99 101 100 Accepted
98 102 50 Ambiguous
97 103 25 Ambiguous
96 104 1 Rejected

Notes Comparison of actual recorded value against the value defined for a question happens in a top-down approach. For this example, the target value is 100 and therefore gets the highest score. From 99 to 101 is still Accepted but scores lower.

To set lookup values for a question

The Question Lookup Values fast tab is dynamic and only visible when the question type is LOOKUP.

Set the question lookup value as per the example below:

Lookup Target Value Score
Black Yes 10
Blue Yes 10
Red Yes 5
White No 1

Notes Comparison of actual recorded value against the value defined for a question happens in a top-down approach.

To set target value for an item

Question Code Colour has four values, but the target value for item 1900-S PARIS Guest Chair, Black is BLACK.

  1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon (Alt+Q).
  2. Type Target Values to open the list of target values.
  3. Select Source Type = Item.
  4. Enter No. = 1900-S.
  5. Select Question = Colour.
  6. Select the assist button on Lookup and select BLACK.
Source Type No. Question Type Lookup
Item 1900-S Colour Lookup Black

By defining the target values, you have fine-tuned the expected target values against quality checks for item 1900-S.

Combining to form a question set

  1. Choose the Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature icon (Alt+Q).
  2. Type Question Set.
  3. Select Create New.
  4. Name the question set = Chair.
  5. In the Question Set lines, add questions Broken, Colour, Paint, and Length.

See also

Tasks

Reference

Quality Management