About Material Quality reporting points
- Last UpdatedMar 11, 2025
- 3 minute read
A Material Quality reporting point collects material quality data to assist in the determination of calculated quantities of inventory. You can create and configure custom fields to link material quality data to material lots and dynamically calculate how much of a given constituent is in the current inventory of material.
Example
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.
A Material Quality reporting point contains the following elements you can configure:
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Capture conditions - The conditions for when to capture Material Quality data.
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Fields - The Material Quality data to capture and the fields in which to store the data.
Where can I add a Material Quality reporting point?
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You can add one or more Material Quality reporting points to a Site or Area folder.
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You can add one or more Material Quality reporting points to any work center that is "lot-tracked" (Selective, LIFO, or FIFO).
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You can add one or more Material Quality reporting points to any work unit that is "lot-tracked" (Selective, LIFO, or FIFO).
When does the Material Quality reporting point create records?
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A Material Quality reporting point automatically captures data when its fields have data available, and the capture conditions are True.
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You can manually add Material Quality reporting point records in AVEVA™ Production Management.
Standard fields
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Each Material Quality reporting point comes with a set of standard fields that are default for all Material Quality reporting points. These fields are supplied by the Quality configuration item. See Material Quality standard fields.
Other guidelines
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These standard fields are visible at the reporting point level of each Material Quality reporting point: Material, MaterialClass, MaterialClassIdentifier, MaterialIdentifier, Lot, RecordIdentifier, and Location Identifier.
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When a Material Quality reporting point contains a capture condition, configure the HistoricalFieldExpression property for the Lot and Material fields.
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The standard field definitions for the Material Quality reporting point reside under the Quality configuration item in the System Configuration folder.
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You can add one or more custom fields to a Material Quality reporting point.
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A Material Quality reporting point can be associated with one or more materials that are allowed for that work center. However, a material can be associated with only one Material Quality reporting point under that work center.
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You cannot add a Material Quality reporting point to a template.
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You cannot have two Material Quality reporting points for the same material at the same work center.
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A Material Quality reporting point does not consume a license.
Linking a Material Quality reporting point with a Calculated Quality reporting point
When you create fields under a Calculated Quality reporting point, AVEVA™ Production Management matches those fields with fields of the same name under a Material Quality reporting point.
Guidelines for field matching
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The name of the field is required to be the same in both reporting points.
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AVEVA™ Production Management performs a scan through the children of the equipment, to which the Calculated Quality reporting point belongs, up to the children of the parent site until it finds a Material Quality reporting point with a field that has the same name.
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If more than one matching Material Quality reporting point is found, AVEVA™ Production Management uses the first match, which is in closest proximity to the Calculated Quality reporting point.
Linking a Material Quality reporting point with Calculated Inventory source fields
Material Quality reporting points have default custom fields that correspond to configured Calculated Inventory source fields.