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In this guide, you’ll get comfortable setting up new quality inspectionsjob-based SPC conditions.

Create new quality inspection groups

1. Go to <yourCompanyServer>.shoplogix.com/qualitycontroller

For example, if your server is “saas125”, then the URL would be saas125.shoplogix.com/qualitycontroller

Next, click the top-right menu toggle to SPC Config

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On the left-side of the screenmenu, you’ll see your machines bucketed by each Plant’s OPERATION field from SLX’s main config.

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This means if 3 machines had been configured with OPERATION = “Welding”, they would all show up in their Plant’s section called “Welding”.

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all machines that have SPC variables configured (for learning how to configure the SPC Signal itself, please reach out to your dedicated SLX engineer)

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2. Select the OPERATIONMachine that you want to configure quality inspections job-based SPC conditions for to load its quality inspectionscurrent settings.

If this is your first time configuring quality inspectionsSPC job-based conditions, your screen will look relatively empty, with a few exceptions:

There will be a “DEFAULT” group available, with at least 1 SPC variable

This DEFAULT group will show all the configured SPC Signals (via SLX Config) and their default Low/High/Target values.

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2. Click the Add button to create a new group of related quality inspectionsjob-based SPC conditions.

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3. Create a relevant name for this group.

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5. Now you can configure Job-based conditions. This means that any time all of the conditions you add here are TRUE, the quality inspections SPC values (which you’ll set up next) will triggerbe evaluated against new Low/High criteria.

For example, if you can configure add a condition where the Job Name contains “XYZ”

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This means that says “Job Name” CONTAINS “XYZ”, then any time a job comes through and its Job Name Job comes in that contains “XYZ”, the Quality Controller will trigger the quality inspections for this group.new Low/High/Target values to evaluate against will be based on the SPC variables that you’re about to configure (next step).

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6. Next up, you’ll need to actually set up your Quality Inspections.

Each Inspection row accounts for a specific work instruction (e.g. 1 row might be “Check the numeric reading on this machine”, another row might be “Check if this injection mold is still correctly in place”)

The options for each quality inspection are as follows:

Order: The order in which each quality inspection appears for your operators.

Name: A human-readable field for yourself to easily manage which quality inspection refers to which work instruction

Type: You have the option of asking your operators to document a measurement or mark a result as Pass/Fail

Low/High/Target/Std Dev: These fields are available when you select “Measurement” in Type. So for example, you may want an acceptable reading on a machine to be between 10 and 40, with a target value of 25. Enter those values here

SPC / Critical: Mark an inspection as SPC to make it appear on the SPC Analysis screen, and mark as Critical to block operators from clearing it accidentally on the SLX Whiteboard until it’s complete

Stage: This is a key field here. Use it to set when a quality inspection should occur. For example, you can set a quality inspection to be performed at the beginning of a new shift, at the end of a shift, etc.

Hyperlink: This is where you should link a copy of your work instruction. Generally we recommend PDF as the preferred file type.

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job-based SPC variables.

You’ll notice that now you’ll still have the same list of variables, except these are editable. You can change the new Low, High, and Target Values here.

Again, this means:

• Any time your Job-based conditions are true, the Quality Controller will use these new values to evaluate against your variables.

• For example, in the image below, you can set “New Generic Variable”s Low and High values to 5 and 9. And each time they are polled from the machine, as long as the job-based conditions are TRUE, if a value of 11 comes in, it will be considered OUT OF SPEC

• Lastly, it is important to note again: When there are NO relevant job-based conditions, the Quality Controller will evaluate your variables against the configuration settings in the DEFAULT group.

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7. When ready, click Save to confirm in your changes.

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Congratulations! 🙌🎉
Now any time the job-based conditions you set up for your group = TRUE, the quality inspections will appear for your operators via the SLX WhiteboardSPC variables will be evaluated against these new low/high/target values (until another job-based condition becomes true, at which point THAT group will become the new evaluator).

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