Quality Control Group Security

Quality Control is a major method of providing process control within Deacom. Quality Control ensures that required Quality Control Tests are performed when Raw Materials are received on Purchase Orders, when Finished Goods are produced on production Jobs, and when previously sold products are returned. Quality Control is an optional feature with a wide array of applications ranging from completely turned off to extremely strict requirements, and is established on an item by item basis. This means that some items can have absolutely no quality control, while others can have many required QC tests.

Quality Control Tests are required to do QC testing. The Quality Control Test describes the base name of the test as well as any applicable testing methods and the Unit of Measure that should be used for testing. Quality Control Groups are a list of sequenced Quality Control Tests for the group to perform. QC Groups can be attached to a Part's Item Master to indicate testing required upon PO receipt or on a Bill of Materials to indicate testing required prior to, or following, finishing of material on a production Job. If two items have identical QC Tests and allowable results, they can share the same QC Group. If two items have different QC Tests or different allowable results, they would each have a different QC Group. A system can have as few as one QC Group, or as many QC Groups as there are items, or anything in between. Items may also have multiple QC Groups assigned based on different testing levels. For example, all Raw Materials may be assigned a basic QC Group, with a certain sub set of Raw Materials being assigned an additional QC Group on the Item Master record to ensure these materials undergo additional QC testing requirements.

Quality Control Security Groups are assigned to each Quality Control Test when the test is added to a Quality Control Group. User Groups are then assigned to QC Security Groups using Quality Control Group Security. This grid must be updated whenever a new Quality Control Security Group or User Group is created to ensure the new group has appropriate access. Specific test protocols and security for entering QC data are configured via Quality Control Groups and security for who can enter QC values is configured via Quality Control Security Groups. Additional system security is required to perform functions such as creating or modifying QC Tests and QC Security Groups.

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Quality Control Group Security form

The Quality Control Group Security grid displays one row for each Quality Control Security Group and User Groups are displayed in the columns. In the fields where the Quality Control Security Groups and User Groups intersect, security will display as Yes or No. Setting a field to "Yes" means Users in that User Group are able to access and enter QC results for Quality Control Tests that are assigned that Quality Control Security Group.