Integration with Aptean Shop Floor Production (BC)

When the Aptean Quality Control (BC) extension is used in conjunction with the Aptean Shop Floor Production (BC) extension, you can seamlessly navigate from production orders to quality checks on the Quality Control App page for streamlined quality control during production.

Follow the steps below to access the quality checks from the production orders.

1. Open the Shop Floor Production page. 
2. Navigate to the Production Orders list page associated with the work center or machine center. 
3. Select the required production order from the list. 
4. Select the Quality Checks tile. 

Based on the quality control trigger, any quality control checks associated with the selected production order will be displayed on the Production Order page.

The system redirects you to the Quality Control App page, with a filter applied to the selected production order.

The number displayed on the Quality Checks tile specifies the number of quality checks associated with the production order. 

The quality control checks can be automatically created using predefined quality control triggers. The system automatically generates quality control checks for production orders based on the following trigger actions:

Trigger type	Trigger points
Production Order	Post a production order Start a work center Stop a work center Work center failure Start a production order Finish a production order

Recurring quality control checks

If a recurring quality trigger has the Allow Multiple Open Checks checkbox selected, the Aptean Quality Control (BC) extension generates a new quality check each time the job runs until the number of open checks equals the value in the Max Recurring Quality Checks – QCA field on the Shop Floor Production Setup page.

If the Allow Multiple Open Checks checkbox is not selected, new recurring checks is generated only for a given production order line once previously generated checks have been posted or deleted. In this scenario, it’s possible for recurring checks to stack and be generated faster than the recurring period as described below.

For example, A recurring time trigger is set up to generate a quality check every 30 minutes, and the job queue attempts to create new checks every 5 minutes.

Time	System behavior
1:00	Production order has started.
1:30	The system creates a recurring quality check.
2:00	The job queue detects that the previously created quality check is still open. No new quality check is created.
2:30	The job queue again detects that the previously created quality check is still open. No new quality check is created.
2:44	The recurring quality check is completed.
2:45	The system creates a recurring quality check. This corresponds to the quality check scheduled for 2:00.
2:47	The recurring quality check is completed.
2:50	The system creates a recurring quality check. This corresponds to the quality check scheduled for 2:30.

Finishing production orders

If a production order is associated with a quality check generated by a quality trigger with the Finish Before Posting Doc checkbox selected, users are prevented from finishing the production order in shop floor production until the check(s) are completed or deleted.

Additionally, the quality control checks can be created at recurring time intervals or based on recurring output quantity, if the create recurring quality control checks job queue is running. If the job queue is not scheduled or executed, these recurring checks will not be created automatically.

Trigger type	Trigger points
Production Order	Recurring time intervals Recurring output quantity

On the Shop Floor Production Setup page, you can automatically set up recurring job queue checks using the Create Job Queue Entry for Recurring Quality Control Checks – QCA action. For more information, see Create recurring quality control checks.