WATS Documentation

Manufacturing Insights

• Process Heatmap

Analytics - General

• "Step that caused UUT to fail" vs. Failed Steps in General
• Using the report filter
• Using and customizing the report grids
• Big Data Analysis - Best Practices
• Step Caused UUT Failed/Error/Terminated
• Tracking sub units in WATS

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Unit

• Test reports
• Update UUT report (edit header data)
• Serial Number History
• Export Reports from the WATS Server

Repair & RMA

• Component Repair
• Product Repair
• Dynamic Repair
• Repair reports
• Repair Time

Yield

• Test step analysis (preview) - Intro
• Test step analysis module (preview) - feature overview
• Step details (preview) - feature overview
• Dynamic Yield
• Product & Test yield
• TSY&A - Test Step Yield & Analysis

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Station

• Cost analysis
• OEE analysis report
• Station Report
• Gage R&R analysis
• Connection & Execution Time Report

Dashboard

• Introduction to WATS dashboards
• Viewing and filtering dashboards
• Creating a custom dashboard
• Edit dashboard
• Configuring the Measurement widget
• Copy or delete a Dashboard

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WATS Mobile App (Android, iOS)

• Overview
• How to login
• The Home dashboard
• The Reporting section
• The Top 10 Failures drilldown
• Scanning barcodes and QR codes

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Operator Interface

• Repair - Best Practices
• Configuring your barcode scanners in WATS
• Manual Inspection (execute operations, visual inspections, etc.)
• Unsubmitted reports
• Unit Verification report in OI

Manual Inspection (MI)

• What is Manual Inspection?
• Create and manage Manual Inspection sequences
• Designing Manual Inspection sequences
• Create a global Manual Inspection sequence
• How to configure Instruction PDFs in Manual inspection
• WWF Designer - Installation

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Repair (UUR)/Rework

• Cusomizing repair operations, repair categories and repair codes
• Repair Units - Create UUR reports
• Repairing sub units (Sub Repair)
• Replace sub units during repair
• Add BOM list to WATS

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

• Archive RCA tickets
• Managing Permissions in the RCA Module
• RCA ticket tags
• RCA ticket messages and progress tracking (8D)
• RCA ticket properties
• Delete RCA tickets

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Users & Account

• Two factor authentication
• Users
• Account
• Tokens
• Edit Roles & Permission

Process & Production

• Edit Processes (Test/Repair Operation)
• Serial Number Handler
• Unit Verification Rules
• Edit KPI (Yield) Targets
• Alarms and notifications

Serial Number and MAC Address Distribution

• Configure Serial number handler at the server
• Configure Serial number handler at the WATS Client
• Get Serial number or MAC address using the WATS Client
• Advanced - Configure Serial Number handler using Client api
• Advanced - Edit serial numbers

Software

• Software Package REST API
• Software Distribution Webinar
• Getting started with Software Distribution
• Create a Software Distribution Package
• WATS Package Manager

System

• Managing Permissions and Connectivity in the Enterprise Connection Module
• Enterprise Connection - Best practice
• Enterprise Connection
• System Manager
• Quarantined Reports

Asset

• Asset Manager
• Asset types
• Asset Manager example - TestStand and LabVIEW
• How to increment asset counters using the UUT report (offline support)
• How to increment asset counters using the .Net Client API

Products

• Assigning tags to products
• Importing products in the Product manager
• Product Groups

Workflow

• Managing workflows in production (as technician)
• Create and edit workflow definition

WATS Servers (Master, Local)

• WATS on-premises backup recommendations
• Finding GPS coordinates for servers and Virtual levels
• Microsoft SQL Server configuration for WATS
• WATS On-premise system monitoring
• Archiving data
• Using a service account instead of network service

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WATS Client

• Download the WATS Client
• Change url in WATS Client setup from skywats.com to wats.com
• Reading WATS data from WATS Client API - Permissions and restrictions
• WATS Client API documentation
• Adding multiple instances of the same WATS Client converter
• How to setup an offline WATS Client

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Knowledge Base

• Approving WATS for medical production (FDA approval)
• Asset vs FixtureId in test reports
• Date and time in WATS
• Delete the web browser cache
• Disable IIS Logging
• Enable Silverlight

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