How to use Manual Inspection in a more efficient way?

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Sami Leskinen

• April 12, 2023 05:03

Hi,
I'm new to WATS and I haven't figured all of the kinks out yet so my question is.

Is it possible to keep current part number, revision and batch number in the operator interface and only scan new serial number to the batch and run the MI sequence? 
e.g If I have a batch of 100 units it seems pretty slow to always fill in all the fields for the same sequence. Only thing changing is my serial number.

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  Andreas Kristensen

  • April 12, 2023 13:11

  Hi, Sami.
  
  No, that's not currently possible, but we have discussed it internally and we feel this is something we could improvement in an upcoming version. The proposed solution would be to have toggle buttons related to each of the fields to determine if the values should be kept in the input fields when a unit is cleared. That way you could tell Wats to keep for instance the part number but clear the serial number.

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  Andreas Kristensen

  • April 12, 2023 14:00
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  Also, note that if you are using a barcode scanner, it is possible to automate this. WATS supports reading all reaquired fields (part number, serial number etc) with a separator (which is / by default)
  
  
  So having barcodes, you could simply swap out the serial number and use a scanner to automatically check in the unit. If your barcode only contains the serial number, or you are manually typing in the data, this won't help much of course.
  
  

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  Sami Leskinen

  • April 13, 2023 04:46

  Hi Andreas,
  
  Thank you for your quick response. I feel like this improvement would be a big increase in productivity. Looking forward for the upcoming versions.
  Sadly the alternative wouldn't have nearly as big of an impact. 
  
  

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