Enter Norm Types

Explanation

Use this activity to define the quality measures from which information will be collected for use in IFS/Quality Management. This mandatory task is to be performed by a system administrator or equivalent person.

A norm type is an ID used in IFS to collect a measurement of quality for a unit of measure, such as length, width, or height. Norm types allow you to review results of a specific norm type's quality. All norm types are user-defined.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• ISO units of measure must be activated in the ISO Code Usage window or entered in the Units of Measure window. Both windows can be found in IFS/Application Services.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• A norm type will be created that can be used when creating analysis types.
• Quality information can be collected on specific norm types. 

Window

Quality Basic Data

Related Window Descriptions

Quality Basic Data, Quality Basic Data/Norm Type

Procedure

To perform this activity, follow these steps:

1. Open the Quality Basic Data window.
2. On the Norm Types tab, create a new norm type.
3. In the Norm Type field, enter up to 30 alphanumeric characters for the ID.
4. In the Description, enter the norm type description.
5. In the Unit of Measure field, select the unit of measure from the List of Values.
6. Save the changes.