Kanoa Quality Training
This section is focused on Kanoa Quality: digital check sheets, how checks get to the right people at the right time, and how to analyze the results.
You'll build five check sheets for the CoreForge plant, each one adding new features:
| Chapter | Check sheet | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Cleanliness Check | Cleanliness Check | The basic workflow: check sheet, check items, release, complete, review |
| Receiving Inspection | Receiving Inspection | Folders, item context, typed and validated items, mobile entry, revisions, corrections |
| First Article Inspection | Machining - First Article Inspection | Item sets, attribute tolerances, multiple measurements, mode-change triggers, notifications, Check Summary |
| Coating Line SPC | Coating SPC Checks | Attributes that read tags, automatic checks, timed triggers, Check Details and SPC |
| Offline Lab Inspection | Offline Lab Inspection | Trigger and calculated items, groups, sign-off, persistence, test fail actions |
Reference Materials: Kanoa Quality - What Quality does and how it fits into Kanoa MES.
Kanoa Quality is the Kanoa MES Solution for digital quality checks, compliance workflows, and statistical quality analysis. It replaces paper check sheets and disparate spreadsheets with an operator-friendly system that allows for consistent production execution context.
Kanoa Quality provides Quality Workflow Management (forms, dispatching, execution, signoffs) and Quality Analytics (compliance performance + SPC and data analysis)
How Quality works in Kanoa
- Create Check Sheets: define required fields, instructions, tolerances/limits, and approval requirements.
- Dispatch checks: schedule by time or trigger by production conditions/events, then track compliance through dashboards and performance analysis.
- Take checks: collect data automatically (via Ignition connectivity) or manually through operator entry with validation and guidance.
- Analyze results: review detail analysis (including SPC) and summarize compliance performance across checks, shifts, assets, and departments.
is an add-on solution to KanoaOps| In This Section | |
|---|---|
| Check Sheets | Create Quality Check Sheets |
| Attribute Tolerances | Configure engineering limits and control limits and provide immediate feedback to operators when measurements violate expectations. Define product and process specifications based on asset/product and connect to plc tag data sources |
| Item Sets | Group products to enabling specifications to be shared across an item set |
| Dispatching & Scheduling | Dispatch checks on a timed schedule or based on production conditions such as product change, shift change, mode change, manual trigger, or custom scripting—then track completion and compliance. |
| Entering Checks | Walk-through on how checks are taken |
| Check Compliance | Review compliance on which checks, assets, areas, departments, shifts are being completed |
| Analyzing Checks | Perform SPC analysis on checks |
| Measures | Capture, aggregate, and statistically analyze process measurements at scale and in real-time. |
Before you start
- Complete Kanoa Ops Training, or at least Base Configuration. Quality uses the CoreForge assets, items, modes, and production runs you built there.
- Your gateway needs a Kanoa Quality license (a trial license is fine).
- Log in as your own user with Gateway Admin rights, as in the Ops course. Several lessons rely on Gateway Admin behavior, such as running a check sheet that is still being revised.
If your CoreForge model is missing anything the Quality lessons use, import these files.
items-coreforge-rm.json: theCoreForge\RMraw material items (aluminum billets and coating ingredients).items-coreforge-wip-machined.json: the nineCoreForge\WIP\Machineditems used for First Article Inspection.coreforge-asset-model-quality.json: the full CoreForge asset model as used in this course.
Check sheets, item sets and attributes are set up under Configuration → Quality. Running checks is under Quality → Schedule (Active Checks, Check Table). Analysis is under Quality → Analysis (Check Summary, Check Details).