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Control plan
Control plan linked to the PFMEA: characteristics and controls come over automatically, changes are flagged, one click synchronises.
Example project · Illustrative data from an imaginary SMT line, not from a real plant. Change anything, open a file or clear it to work on your own project.
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Plan details
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Method
- Rows come from the PFMEA: every product characteristic (on a process step function) and every process characteristic (on a work element function) of the PFMEA is a row, with its operation, machine, classification and specification. The PFMEA's prevention controls arrive as the control method and its detection controls as the evaluation / measurement technique.
- Columns: characteristic number, process number, operation, machine / device / tools, product characteristic, process characteristic, special class, specification / tolerance, evaluation / measurement technique, sample size, sample frequency, control method, reaction plan.
- Phases: Prototype, Pre-launch and Production share the rows; each phase has its own measurement, sample size, frequency, control method and reaction plan. Switch phase with the buttons; Copy controls from brings the columns of another phase over.
- Out of sync: each row remembers what the PFMEA said at the last synchronisation. When the PFMEA says something else now, the row is marked out of sync and the detail shows what changed. Sync with PFMEA updates changed rows, adds rows for new characteristics (after the last row of their operation) and removes rows of characteristics that no longer exist. Control columns you have not changed follow the PFMEA; the ones you edited stay as you wrote them.
- Your own rows: add a row below the selected one for anything the PFMEA does not hold. Such rows are never touched by synchronisation. Rows that come from the PFMEA cannot be edited or deleted in the plan; change or remove the characteristic in the PFMEA.
- Saving: the plan is part of the same project as the PFMEA and is saved automatically in this browser; nothing is sent anywhere. If you change the project on the other page while this one is open, this page reloads it when you return to it. Use Save JSON for a file.
- Checking a characteristic: the buttons in a row's detail lead to the capability and control chart tools, where you paste measurements of that characteristic; nothing is passed along automatically.
- Output: Export XLSX writes one sheet per phase in the layout of the control plan, together with the PFMEA sheet; Print / PDF prints the phase that is shown, A3 landscape, with the column headings repeated on every page.
- Limits: below 760 px width the plan can only be viewed. The Excel file has no cell formatting.