Visualization

Description

This tab makes it possible to record Visual Quality Defects and Annotations in runtime. Using this functionality, a quality inspector or shop floor operator can:

Report defects directly on the Product image by clicking the position where a defect occurs
Add Annotations to the image
Add Annotations to a Visual Quality Defect

Once the Visual Quality Defects have been recorded, a quality manager can calculate the concentration areas of the Visual Quality Defect occurrences using a Concentration Diagram.

Visual Quality Defect Tracking can also be defined in an Operation using the vQDT Business Control. It can then be displayed directly to the user through the DELMIA Apriso Portal, DELMIA Apriso Desktop Client or a mobile application. For more information, refer to the Quality Defects Visualization Control section of the Process Builder Help.

Product Images Selection Pane

The images displayed on the Visualization tab are defined for the Product on the Product Maintenance screen or the Group screen (if this Product belongs to a Product Group). If images are defined for both the Product and Group then both sets are displayed here (unless the image names are the same in which case only one image will be displayed). In runtime, only images with the Active status are visible. Clicking a thumbnail will display the image and make it possible to define Visual Quality Defects and add Annotations. The number of Visual Quality Defects reported on a given image is displayed in the brackets next to its name. If the name of the image is too long to be displayed, you can hover the cursor over the image to display a tooltip with the full name. For information on how to create a Product visualization, refer to the Visual Quality Defects Tracking Implementation Guide.

If an image is removed from a Product or Product Group Visualization and Visual Defects were reported on this image, then it still will be displayed.

Tools Pane

In the Tools panel, you can select what type of item you wish to mark on the product image, zoom in on and out of the image, and change the way the Annotations, regions, and grid are displayed.

Reporting Mode

Visual Quality Defects

To activate the Visual Quality Defect reporting mode, click (Defect). Visual Quality Defects can be added on the Product image to mark places where defects were spotted on the item under inspection. When a mark is put on the image, the system creates a new Visual Quality Defect with a given Reason Code and links it to the Quality Defect that is being edited.

To report a Visual Quality Defect, click the Defect icon on the left side of the screen and start marking the defects on the image by clicking the places where they occur
To delete a Visual Quality Defect, click it and press the delete button on your keyboard (to select more than one Visual Quality Defect, hold the Ctrl key and click the Visual Quality Defects)
To move a Visual Quality Defect, drag it to the desired position
To add an Annotation directly to a Visual Quality Defect, double-click the Visual Quality Defect

Annotations

To activate the Annotation reporting mode, click (Annotation) . Annotations are notes that can be added on the Product image. They can be used as a source of additional information about a given spot on the image or about a Visual Quality Defect.

To add an Annotation, click the Annotation icon on the left side of the screen and start adding the Annotations on the image (the character limit for the text is 2000)
To delete an Annotation, click it and press the delete button on your keyboard
To move an Annotation, drag it to the desired position
To add an Annotation directly to a Visual Quality Defect, double-click the Visual Quality Defect

Image Display

To zoom in on or zoom out of the image to display it in the most convenient way, use the Zoom slider
To show or hide the Annotation text on the Product image, use the Show annotations content check box
To show or hide the grid and regions on the image, use the Show grid and regions check box

Filter

The filter grid enables you to change the filtering options to choose what should be displayed on the product image. Selecting the check boxes will cause the given entities to be displayed. For example, you can select only Annotations and Defects in the Open status to be displayed.

Search

This grid displays all the Visual Quality Defects and Annotations added to the Product image. It allows for searching for Annotations on the list and checking where they are displayed on the Product image.

The following actions can be performed on the grid:

To look for Annotations added to the image and Annotations added directly to Visual Quality Defects, use the Search field:

Start typing the Annotation text and the Annotation will be highlighted on the list
Use the arrows to move through the search results

To delete an Annotation, select it on the grid and click (Remove)
To delete a Visual Quality Defect, select it on the grid and click (Remove)
To see the found Annotation or Visual Quality Defect on the Product image, click (Find Selected) and it will be highlighted on the image

The grid contains the columns shown in the table below.

Field	Description
Type	D=Defect, A=Annotation.
Position	The relative position of the Visual Quality Defect or Annotation
Annotation	The Annotation text If a Visual Quality Defect does not have an Annotation added, this field will be empty.
Status	The Visual Quality Defect status that can be selected from a drop-down list. The available statuses are: Open Corrected Closed The statuses do not apply to Annotations.