On Traceability

Legacy Contributor

Hello,

We're looking into setting up traceability for some of our products, and I was wondering how most other people did it.

We manufacture a number of pieces of equipment, each of which has several subcomponents that get serial numbers (A fairly dense circuit board, an HID lamp, etc.)

I'm new to setting all this up, but in my testing, it would seem that all I can do is assign traceable parts to work orders. I can't seem to link, for instance, a lamp to a particular machine that's getting shipped out unless the work order was only for one machine.

We have some custom test hardware and software which I can (and plan to) modify to write to the user columns in the TRACE table (And apparently TRACE_HISTORY), for storing the results of automated tests that are run on the parts.

Like I said, my primary concern right now is actually linking the serial number of a subordinate part to its master. Any thoughts? How does everyone else do it? Am I missing something obvious?

We also have Visual Quality and the barcode module, but I haven't yet figured out how we plan to implement them, either.

Legacy Contributor

My issue has been the same, I was able to overcome it using the fields in the trace profile of the RECEIVING units. Are you traceing many components of the finished good or few?