Mobile Inspection: Cloud-based incoming goods inspection directly at the truck
Hand on heart: you have digitized your quality management - but when the truck pulls up to the ramp, paper and pencil are taken out to check the delivery. With cloud-based Mobile Inspection from Quality Miners, this is a thing of the past.
Let's imagine the following: a refrigerated truck drives up to the ramp and is unloaded. While the truck drives off again, the goods are conveyed to the temperature lock, where the goods temperature is checked. It is determined that this is too low. The cold chain is interrupted. Has this already happened in the truck or only in the plant? "The problem in is that the inspection PC is not always available where it needs to be checked," explains Tobias Brehm, Business Development Manager at Quality Miners GmbH, based in the German town of Pfinztal near Karlsruhe. "The remedy is our completely newly developed Mobile Inspection, which can be used regardless of location. This solution will revolutionize the entire inspection process." This is because Mobile Inspection comes into play where stationary quality inspections are not feasible due to spatial or infrastructural restrictions.
Create individual workflows in Mobile Inspection
The cloud-based solution can be used both in the cloud and on-premise. Those responsible for quality can define how the goods are to be inspected directly in the web interface without any programming knowledge. Inspection characteristics, sample size, nominal dimensions, tolerances, and the inspection equipment to be used are specified in the process. Every type of inspection, whether plausibility check, identity check, visual inspection or quality control, can be mapped in this way. Thanks to the in-house MIC technology (Measuring Equipment Interface Connector), manual measuring equipment of any kind can also be integrated.
Intuitive operation for the user
The user can now log in to Mobile Inspection via any commercially available end device, such as a tablet or smartphone, which is connected to the Internet via W-LAN or mobile network. When the truck rolls up to the loading bay, the system guides the user through the inspection process. It tells him to check the goods directly in the refrigerated truck with the infrared measuring device and that the temperature must be between 4 °C and 8 °C. Only when he has confirmed this, does he start the inspection. Only when he has confirmed this can the truck be unloaded. If the user detects deviations, he can document this with a photo, for example, and upload it to the cloud system. At the end of the inspection process, the inspection decision is triggered with a click.
Easy connection to SAP and QM.CAQ
Mobile Inspection is a lean and intuitive system in which no inspection plan or inspection order is created itself. These functions remain in QM.CAQ from the same manufacturer. The new release of this quality management software, which will appear in spring 2023, will include this connection to the new mobile inspection system as standard. Via an interface, the inspection order will then simply be fetched from QM.CAQ into Mobile Inspection. This means that all parts information and inspection characteristics are available locally and tedious duplicate creation is avoided.
The solution can be integrated into SAP without the need for a separate CAQ system. The interface for this is supplied by Quality Miners free of charge. "This enables companies that monitor their quality via SAP to also carry out their inspection planning and inspection lots in SAP and at the same time to use all the advantages of Mobile Inspection," adds Brehm. In addition, Mobile Inspection was designed with an open REST API interface. This enables customers to use the solution not only in QM.CAQ or SAP, but also to connect to all systems that support this standard in the future.
AI expands mobile inspection capabilities
What for many is still a dream of the future can already be optionally integrated into Mobile Inspection: an AI technology such as ChatGPT. With artificial intelligence, patterns in inspection data could be recognized and decisions made on this basis. In addition, such technology can also provide expert answers to users' questions.
In addition, the company is currently working intensively on extending Mobile Inspection to inspections during series production (SPC) and outgoing goods inspections. "Mobile Inspection will revolutionize the inspection process," Brehm is certain. In the future, this solution should be able to completely replace stationary inspections to the greatest possible extent. You can already learn more about this today in Quality Miners webinars. The first webinar will start on April 18, 2023 on the topic of "How AI is revolutionizing quality control".
Source: Quality Miners
