About Audit and Assessment

Audit and Assessment provides an end-to-end solution to plan, schedule, execute, and track audits and assessments in Teamcenter.

You can:

• Schedule audits for companies, people, processes, or parts.

• Use audit guideline objects to specify the various standards and parameters that you want to include in the audit process.

• Use quality checklists to create the questionnaires that are required for audit interviews. You can also use these to document feedback and observations.

• Report the audit findings as issues and assign these to the users responsible for taking the required actions.

• View reports that can help in communicating the audit results effectively.

• Track the due dates of tasks assigned to the audit participants or responsible users.

The Audit and Assessment solution supports a wide variety of audit approaches such as process audits, system audits, supplier audits, and assessments.

Audit and Assessment is part of the Teamcenter Quality suite of products that helps you examine whether processes, requirements, and guidelines meet the required standards.

Where do I go from here?

Administrator	To know which features are required to install Audit and Assessment, see Install Quality Audit using Deployment Center. To configure quality audit according to your business requirements, see Configure quality audit.
Business User
How do I create master data and associate it to quality audits?	Before executing the audit and assessing the questionnaire, you must first create the master data in the Quality Master Data library and then associate the master data to the audit.
How do I work with checklists in Teamcenter?	To know how you can work with checklists in Teamcenter, refer to the section on create a checklist in the Quality Master Data library. You can also find information about checklists and their properties and about adding questions to them (among other tasks).
How do I perform audits in Teamcenter?	The Audit and Assessment process in Teamcenter is largely based on the quality audit framework followed by the industry. See the Audit and Assessment process workflow for the sequence of tasks performed by different users of Audit and Assessment using Teamcenter. You can also create quality audit guidelines and create finding guidelines.
How do I report the audit findings?	To investigate a potential problem that must be addressed, you can capture it as an issue. For more information on how to do this, see Quality Issues.
After performing an audit, how can I track other quality-related tasks and the identified issues?	For details on how to create, execute, and track the preventive actions and other quality-related tasks, see the information provided in Quality Actions.