Quality Characteristics, Control Plans

The Quality heading is found under the 'Setup' tab on Bluestreak's home page. Under the title quality, characteristics & control plans are found and describe the acceptable level of quality, which is typically defined by the customer, and describes how the product will ensure this level of quality. This video details how to add, edit and delete control plans in Bluestreak.

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00:03 We're going to be covering control plans today, so let's get right into that. You're logged into the system rights control, like everything else. We're going to hit two points and then, or actually three. So the first place we're going to go is under setup. Everything's under setup that we're gonna do today under types and we are going to look for a type of control plan characteristic and it's going to be a unit of measure under the setup list types. This is where you're going to add your units of measures. Now we're gonna talk about a couple of variations of control plans, but these are all measurements unit of inches, degrees f mills, Psi, a hpw hardest, burl, Wilson, H R, b HRC, millimeters. So yeah, their units, you sort of units, we're going to build a units tables from there we're going to go to set up again and we're going to go to under quality characteristics.

01:06 So I've got a prebuilt list here that I've added. Um, so I have effective case as an example. Um, elongation diameter. So let's use diameters. An example, a little more neutral. I'm processing a part on I need to measure the diameter in inches for the finished product. So I have a unit of measure of inches, but my source measure what I'm measuring is diameter. So the two will come together, um, in, under a control plan itself. So no thickness is another example of that. I'm measuring the thickness of a powder part. I've power coded. So the part thickness of the powder is four mills. So that's where, you know, once again, the unit of measure of mills with a thickness of in mills equals. The other example for control plans that will cover is I use visual, um, some people can call it per process.

02:04 This will be for our attribute type control plan, which is a statement good, bad pass, fail. So we have two types, variable range of measurement and then attribute or a statement. So let's say let's move to that. Oh, to add a control plan. Characteristics, sorry, you just click the ad and name it and insert and it would add it. So whatever you're measuring by Nay, which your, what your measurement would be, buy in which one lives on your sort of occasions of possibly sob shipping reports. This is where you would add them and just insert an adult and be available on the site. Okay. Next step of this is to go to under quality. Again, control plans. I'm going to build a example. Control Plan. Now this site has all my say, bells and whistles turned on for control plans. So don't let it. Don't let it get overbearing.

03:08 So I'm just going to add one. I give it a name. Uh, I typically am writing control plans with a process. A process to me always should have a control plan. Measuring the effectiveness of my processing, whatever I'm doing. Um, so I'll give it a name. We'll call this sample one revision, one revision of it. You can do a description if you like, not necessarily, but you can start date when you add these. It's today, the day you add, I always leave the end date blank because they never want them to expire because I'm going to attach this to a process to at some point and I don't want to control playing alter that in a year and a half. It expires because I set a date, excuse me. Um, and it's marked modifiable on the order. What that means is these characteristics that will attach to it next can be changed on the order level and keeping in mind rights controlled.

04:04 So let's save it. This would be the header of the control plan. At this point you can attach media notes and it also as a reference tool. So if you want to edit these things later, you can see where it's used. So I select it, you'll see that it's highlighted in blue that select it. Now it gives me characteristics of control. Plan, sample rev one. And I can just add, I'm going to add my sequence one. Uh, the first one I'm gonna do is I'm going to pick for my dropless. This is the characteristics we added. So there's my diameter. I can give instructions here that can be printed on work orders or I can leave it blank. Um, this is a test type is going to be variable. Now the words range of my unit. I'm going to measure this in inches. Um, my sampling size, I'm going to say, you know, invite a fault one, I will in advance control plants.

04:56 We'll talk about sampling plans and how those work and spc and all this other stuff. But this is just for a simple on without sampling plans with auto SBC. Um, my test site variable by reporting unit, unit, unit of measure. You owe him inches of measured and rounded. Ollie blank. We're not going to talk about that. Um, I don't want to do decimals or I want to do, I want to do one decimal place for the inches measurements and then I give it my range. So I want to say, um, you know, one point two, and you'll notice it does handle a lot of decimal places. The decimal place show is on reports. How many should we show? So I'm going to say, you know, just my example, one point two to two, point three is my lower spec in my upper spec. These are the control, this is what our orders we're going to test to make sure it's good.

05:53 All right, so check boxes here, no audio Spec or approval, and that's checked. That means when these results are entered on an order and we have all the other safety is turned on, it require that the readings have to be within range or you're going to have to do a concession granted to do a shipper or an approval sign off on a certification to have a proven assert without a spec readings on it. There's an exclude sky pilot. They're excluded from shipper. That means I'm going to exclude these characteristics, this characteristic from a shipper. I can pick a piece of require equipment that is required or suggested at the one I'm mentoring. Quality character characters for this. Um, can be skipped means if it's checked means I don't have to enter these values to do a shipper or assert there'll be an active button and I'm skipping the checkboxes.

06:46 We will cover an advanced quality active, you want them active and then the last one here that you'd have to concern yourself with is exclude from search. So if it's a reading that you want to measure for internal cathering but you don't want to report out to your customer, you can mark it as will exclude from search. And to save it, we just insert. Okay, so that's my measuring diameter. While I also want to measure, do a visual inspection. So I'm adding another characteristic type and this time mom, call it visual. Once again, I can do instructions here, look at this side this way, that way, but instead of the test typing variable, it's going to be an attribute. You know, some, some things changed here when I did that. I'm sampling size lots, an attribute, a statement. So I'm only going to require one.

07:33 I can still have the sampling plans, but dance quality, false rating, and a true reading. That's what you're going to be entering here and us what, uh, your operators or will be reporting false nomenclature. However you want to fail a no good dirty, you know, a false reading and a PA, a good reading, true reading pass, I'm good, clean, whatever it's negative, positive responses is what they are, and this is just a, it's an attribute, a statement of a. We still have the know how to Spec. Shipman exclude from shipper, can be skipped, exclude from certain active and equipment required here as well. Um, all of these check boxes, by the way, you know the odd out of SPEC, exclude from can be skipped. I'm excluded from certification sampling. Size, default settings, all can be set on system settings to fault but not just sat there, you just, just so you know where they are to save the insert this and you've built a control plan that you could attach to a process or a part in the system to flow to a work order.