First Article Preferences

  

First Article buyoff process
The FAIR buyoff process selected here will be automatically assigned to a supplier when it is added through the Suppliers setup page.

No Buyoff - FAIRs received from suppliers do not need to be approved and are considered finished upon submission.
One-Step Buyoff - FAIRs received from suppliers need to be approved and enter "Pending Buyoff" status upon submission.
Delegated - FAIRs received from suppliers are considered to be bought off by that supplier upon submission and are labelled with the status "Delegated".

Enable over-inspect feature on Form 3 of supplier FAIRs

Enables Over-Inspect feature on FAIR Form 3. This allows users to provide comments for characteristics on suppliers' FAIRs (such as measurement comparisons). These comments are only visible to the customer.

Enable Internal Review on internal FAIRs

Enables the "Internal Review" option for FAIRs. When Field 20 of an internal FAIR is signed, the user responsible for Field 22 can select a "Review Mode" option on the Internal Review sidebar shown on the left side of the page. They can then select FAIR fields and provide review comments if needed; these will be shown to other internal users, allowing them to make corrections after the FAIR is unsigned.

Allow documents to be uploaded to all supplier FAIRs after submission

If enabled, then all FAIRs where your company is the customer (including those created by your own company) will allow files to be uploaded on the Documents tab after the FAIR is submitted (i.e., Field 22 signed) and approved (Field 24 signed). Documents uploaded after the FAIR has been submitted will be marked with a "Post-submission" tag.

This setting also allows the FAIR's customer to freely upload documents to a FAIR after it has been submitted. 

Only allow submission of FAIRs using the AS9102 Rev. C standard

If enabled, then FAIRs created by your company, or created for your company by a supplier, cannot be submitted unless they are following the AS9102 Revision C standard. (An error will occur upon attempting to submit a Rev. A or Rev. B FAIR.)

FAIRs using the AS9102 Rev. B standard can be converted to Rev. C using a button located in the top-left of each form. This option is only available when Form 1 is not signed (i.e., the Field 19 "Signature" field is not completed).

Do not apply customer workflow on delegated FAIRs

If enabled, FAIRs submitted to your company that receive the "Delegated" approval status will not have a customer workflow applied to them.

Next FAI report number

The number shown here will be automatically set as the "FAIR Number" (Field 4) of the next FAIR generated in your account.

Custom % Tolerance Limits

A result entered on FAIR Form 3 is color-coded according to how close it is to the tolerances or specification limits defined for that characteristic. By default, they are colored as follows:

0-50% - Green
50-100% - Yellow
100% - Red

The "% of tolerance" at which a Result turns yellow can be changed by adjusting the UMI Green Limit defined here, while the % of tolerance at which a Result turns red can be changed by updating the UMI Yellow Limit. This setting applies to both FAIRs create by your company, as well as FAIRs created by your suppliers.

Workflow Priority

If enabled, a workflow will be automatically assigned to First Article Inspection Reports and E-Rejection Tags based on the priorities defined by this setting. 

For example, if both a Company and Program workflow can be assigned to a FAIR, and Program is prioritized ahead of Company according to this setting, then the Program workflow will be assigned to the FAIR.

Customer Workflow Priority

If enabled, a customer workflow will be automatically assigned to First Article Inspection Reports submitted to your company based on the priorities defined by this setting. 

For example, if a customer workflow has been defined for both the Supplier Group and Division associated with a FAIR, and the Supplier Group is has higher priority according to this setting, then the Supplier Group customer workflow will be assigned to the FAIR.

If disabled, then the customer workflow associated with the FAIR's To Division -- or in a company with no Divisions defined, the "Default" customer workflow -- will typically take precedent unless a specific customer workflow has been associated with the FAIR's supplier.

Inspection Plan

If the "Automatically update features..." option is enabled here, then when a characteristic on a FAIR is updated, the corresponding feature on the Part Number's inspection plan will automatically receive the same updates. (A part record can be accessed through the "Part & Feature Setup" section of the Quality Management menu.)

Features that have already had measurements recorded for them (e.g., through the Record Measurements page) will not be automatically updated.