About Material Quality

Important: There have been some important functional changes to the way Material Quality works. For more information, see Changes to Material Quality.

A Material Quality reporting point collects material quality data to assist in the determination of calculated quantities of inventory. The Material Quality concept is about linking Quality attributes to specific lots of material. Some examples of Quality attributes are: Ash, Moisture, Platinum.

Example: Calculating an Inventory quantity with Material quality

AVEVA™ Production Management can calculate an inventory level with a formula that combines a Material quality and an Inventory quantity.

For example, if your material is 5ppm gold (Material Quality) and you have 100 tonnes of material (Inventory Quantity), you can determine the quantity of gold = 0.5 Kg.

Material Quality reporting points

A Material Quality reporting point is the same as a Quality reporting point except for a few key differences:

• You can add one or more Material Quality reporting point to a work center. You cannot add a Material Quality reporting point anywhere else.

• There is only one Material Quality reporting point record per Lot/Material/Work Center combination. Duplicates are not allowed.

• A Material Quality reporting point has two additional standard fields: Material and Lot.

• You cannot add Material Quality reporting point to a Template.

• You can add one or more evaluated fields.

Material Quality records

• New Material Quality records are created when a new lot is created .

• A user can manually add a new Material Quality record.

• You cannot delete a Material Quality record.

Related topics

• Overview of Material Quality

• Work with Material Quality

• Configure Material Quality hierarchy

• Changes to Material Quality