About Control and Inspection Planning in Teamcenter

Teamcenter Control and Inspection Planning is a documented description of the systems used in minimizing process and product variation. It contains all critical and significant quality inspection characteristics (process and product related) that are required in the production process. The goal of Control and Inspection Planning is to trim down the inefficiencies in a process by identifying their source and monitoring them. This decreases product development time and reduces overall cycle times and associated costs. When you use Control and Inspection Planning to focus on the critical aspects of a process, you can improve the efficiency and increase profitability.

A Control and Inspection Planning:

• Describes the actions required at each phase of the process to assure that all process outputs are controlled.

• Focuses on the product characteristics that are most important to the customer and the business.

• Reduces scrap, eliminates costly rework, and prevents defective products from reaching customers.

• Improves manufacturing efficiency and drives positive bottom-line returns.

• Sustains product and process improvements over a long period of time by assuring that the process will not revert to the previous state.

Example

Consider a scenario where you are manufacturing a front plate casing. You want to ensure that the quality is maintained while various operations are performed to create the front plate casing. To ensure the quality, you create a Control Plan that defines which operations are being performed. Additionally, you also define what measurements must be inspected after each operation is performed.

To manufacture a front plate casing, you need to perform the Punching, Alignment of the punching holes, and Deburring operations. When a quality engineer inspects the front plate casing after the Punching operation is performed, they must ensure that the diameter of the punched holes is 20 mm. For the Alignment of the punching holes operation, the quality engineer must ensure that the punched holes are correctly aligned. Additionally, after the Deburring operation is done, the quality engineer must perform a surface check to ensure that the surface does not have any defects.

Using Teamcenter Control and Inspection Planning, you can do this by creating a Control and Inspection Planning for the front plate casing. In Teamcenter, add the Punching, Alignment of the punching holes, and Deburring operations to be tracked. For each operation, add an Inspection Definition that defines the characteristics that must be measured while inspecting the part on the shop floor.

Finally, when a quality engineer inspects the front plate casing assembly on the shop floor, the quality engineer checks that the Punching, Alignment of the punching holes, and Deburring operations are performed with the correct measurements as defined in their Inspection Definitions.

Where do I go from here?

Administrator	To know which features are required to install Control and Inspection Planning, see Install Control and Inspection Planning.
Administrator	To configure Control and Inspection Planning according to your business requirements, see Configure Control and Inspection Planning.
Business User
What are the first steps in getting started with Control and Inspection Planning in Teamcenter?	You can start defining the Characteristics Library by creating the required Characteristic Groups and Quality Characteristics.
After defining the Characteristics Library, what are the next steps in Teamcenter?	You can create a Control and Inspection Planning that describes the actions required at each phase of the process.
After creating the Control and Inspection Planning, you must define its scope.	You can define which operations must be monitored by the Control and Inspection Planning by adding the required operations.
After defining the scope of the Control and Inspection Planning, specify what is being measured on the shop floor in each operation.	To do this, add the Inspection Definitions that define the measurements and attach the required Quality Characteristics.