Inspector Fusion: Using Autodesk Fusion 360 and Prodsmart in Quality Management

MARK ALLEN FLAYLER: Welcome to Inspector Fusion using Autodesk Fusion 360 and Prodsmart in Quality Control. My name is Mark Allen Flayler. I'm an engagement engineer with IMAGINiT Technologies. And I'm also going to be joined by one of my compatriots, Caleb Funk, in our demonstrations today. Let's talk about why we're here first. So manufacturing is changing fast and staying competitive requires efficient, quality processes. We're always trying to hit our targets.

There's always targets that are being presented to us in, not only the market, but also inside of our own company. And these are typically around producing good quality products and ensuring that our quality processes continue to allow our products to be made efficiently. We typically have quality management systems that surround us to help us with these sort of endeavors. And quality management is really two things. It is quality assurance, which is quite literally, quite proactive. And it's all about process.

It's aimed at preventing defects and planned systematic activities that take place during the creation of products and in manufacturing of products. Also auditing to compare expected results that we have in our plans versus the actual results. And it's typically organizational-wide. Quality assurance is everybody's job. Now quality control is typically a little bit more team-based. So you would have a QC department, where it's all about product. And you're identifying defects.

It's also about operational techniques performed to get the result of your product. And we typically inspect to meet spec. Now these are all important because typically, when we're going through all these different targets, it's quality assurance and quality control, we always have to try to keep ISO audits in mind and things of that nature. So we do need to prevent Dr. Claw from coming in and giving us a negative score on our ISO audits.

How do we do that? So with our learning objectives today, we're going to find different gadgets to help us meet our quality assurance and quality control goals. We're going to discover inspection methods inside of Fusion 360, learn about developing quality management workflows with Fusion 360 and Prodsmart, learn how to use Prodsmart for quality tracking and analytics and discover single source data integrity with Fusion 360 Manage Extension.

So there's a lot of technology available for quality processes. And choosing the right gadget is really important to make sure that it's effective for you. And there's a lot of pathways to digital inspection, which is going to be really our focus today. And what we have to remember as we go through this course, as we go through this learning, is that there's going to be a lot of possibilities, but you also have to, ultimately, figure out what is necessary for your company.

So a few things we're going to look at are Inventor Professional very briefly. We're going to talk about Vault Professional, also briefly. We're going to focus a little bit more on Fusion 360, Fusion Team, Fusion 360 Manage Extension, as well as Prodsmart. All different gadgets available at our disposal.

So starting off with Inventor Professional, this is something we've had for years as far as inspection capability. So inside of the drawing environment for Inventor, there is a standard feature called Inspection Dimension. And with this, you can choose different shapes for your inspection dimensions so they are looking different than traditional dimensions. You can put labels and inspection rates on it.

However, the big drawback with this is it's not very functional for internal or external quality processes. You're typically still creating PDFs, or you're sending out documentation that gets manually recorded and then gets recorded into an Excel spreadsheet, or another form or another document. It's never really tied together back into the Inventor model very [AUDIO OUT]. And essentially, if you're having to create a lot of first article inspections or reports and you want that tied to your digital geometry, it's been a little lacking in that sense.

Now there is some enhancements that have been added to Inventor, mostly because they've been asked that so many questions, so many times. Like, how do I get first article inspection inside of Inventor? Well, the answer has been send it to Fusion. So inside of Inventor, there is a tight integration between Fusion 360 and Inventor Professional. You have a Fusion 360 tab. You can click on Manual Inspection.

It will send the file, the IPT, up to Fusion teams via the desktop connector. Once it's there, you right click on the file in Fusion Teams and you say, let's go ahead and create a Fusion design. You do get two separate files because Fusion has to be able to do certain Fusion things, but you'll have a digital copy up there, a digital record of that. So you can see in the lower right image, the IPT has been loaded, but a design has been created for a Fusion archive design.

Now this can also be done with Vault Professional. So Vault Professional has a connectivity to Fusion Teams as well, where you can use the project sync functionality to transfer. And this uses the job processor with Vault Professional, and also uses the desktop connector to make sure this technology works. And it's really metered data integrity of sending data up there. It allows you to control that passage of data. You can schedule different options for how you push that data up.

You can have a release bias from Vault for how you send data to that. But once it's there, it's going to behave the same way as an Inventor file did from the Send a Fusion from Inventor. So you still have to right click and say Create a Fusion Design. Now once we take things from Inventor or Vault and we get it up into Fusion, what is this Fusion teams thing, right?

What is this area that I'm sending things to? Well, it's essentially design team administration and data management for Fusion-based files. It's also extremely collaborative. Now you might be asking yourself, how do I get teams? I've heard it quite a bit. Well, every PDMC license, every Fusion 360 license holder has Fusion Teams.

If somebody does not have one of those license types, you can buy additional participant licenses or design collaborators. For instance, you can have some supplier that's working on your Inventor work, or maybe using a competing CAD software, be a participant to add data to your Fusion team environment so you can consume that. It's essentially, an extremely smart FTP-type site for CAD data.

And any Autodesk ID can be invited to a Fusion. So once you have it installed, it's going to create a drive in your computer called Fusion 360 Drive there. And essentially, you're going to have data syncing back and forth, kind of like a Dropbox or also the Autodesk drive, very similar technology for that using the desktop connector. It's accessible in web browsers, as well as seeing that data directly in Fusion 360, if that is your core design tool.

Now a note about collaboration. This always kind of strikes me that people don't know this about Fusion Teams, but you can load Inventor data up there. And it understands the relationships of your Inventor data. So like this brake rotor, for instance, it knows what drawing is used in there. It knows what parts are used in there. And it can actually can track the uses and where used inside of this Fusion Team environment.

So again, if you're collaborating with somebody, you can use that as a smart repository. You can also create comments and you can share that with external stakeholders, where they can comment and say, I don't like what you're doing here, or I got a problem with this particular bolt or nut, or this color is wrong, this material is wrong. You can actually see those comments live in Fusion Teams, as well as Fusion.

And it does ultimately, at its core, Version Control as well for Fusion files or anything else you're adding up there. You can even create milestones that say once I have this up there, I've kind of semi-released it or quasi-released it. So I'm going to create a milestone that says it's ready for this next step, it's ready for this next person to look at. And it can create a milestone for that data.

Now once we have our data from Inventor or Vault, or if doing things natively inside of Fusion 360 and things have been loaded into Teams, what is the payoff here? Why am I talking about going to Fusion with this stuff? Well, there is a tremendous amount of inspection methods inside of this environment, a tremendous amount of gadgets that we can play with. So the base Fusion 360 has manual inspection capability and work coordinate system probing so you can check stock before you start machining a part that goes bad, for instance, that may be already out of spec.

We also have a machining extension, which does even more inspection-type capabilities for geometry probing or surface inspection, or even quick part alignments for new part change outs on your machines. That's an additional add on for Fusion 360 though. Now the manual inspection, we're going to focus heavily on this here, it allows you to create an inspection sequence for your parts. It allows you to do measurements. You can do text type-ins, or you can do pass/fail operations.

You can put in comments. It'll automatically move your camera from one location to another. And you can create multiple inspections. Maybe I have an inspection for one type of process, but a different inspection for a different type of process, or a different quality control person, perhaps. But this is really designed for manual tools. It's designed for calipers, micrometers, height gauges, go, no-go type hole gauges, things of that nature. So we're going to see how to set these up.

Now the extended capabilities in the machining extension, I'm not going to talk about these at length, but it can do quite a bit. So for instance, the probe geometry and inspect surface, those are things which allow you to actually change out a cutting tool for a probing tool and have it actually record measurements during the actual manufacturing process. This is great because you can see if something goes out of spec during the process, so you can cease operations neither do rework or to cancel or scrap the part entirely and start over.

A part alignment, again, is great to ensure that each setup you put in takes the same amount of time and is consistent. So these are all things that help for quality assurance. Making sure that we're putting good parts in, that what parts are being created, that things are within spec, right? For quality control purposes, we can get reports out of all these things. We can do measurements on the fly, if we need to. So all great things for inspection if you want to go up to the machining extension.

Now when we start looking at the quality control process, so I've created an inspection. You know, things like Inspect ID, thickness, manual inspection. So how do we actually then do something? Well, you can use those hand tools, like a digital caliper or micrometer. They can also be Bluetooth enabled so that they can connect directly to your Fusion environment so you don't have that hand key something and risk typing in the wrong number.

You can import the data from Spindle Probes, like I already mentioned, with the machining extension. Those can be captured into the same report. So you can capture machine information. You can also capture your manual reports, your manual information. And then that can be exported in that combined report and become something you would use for your first article inspection. So you-- you can see right there, a document, measurement units, if you're in tolerance or out of tolerance, and what measurements you actually took.

So what we're going to do next is we're going to switch over to Fusion 360. We're going to look at Fusion Teams and we're going to create some manual inspections. Then I'm going to have Caleb come in and actually record some manual inspections off of a part. Here inside of Fusion teams, I have this harmonica holder. This harmonica holder is going to be our part that we're going to create some inspections on.

Here inside of Fusion teams, you can see that I have the component. I can see if it was used in or if it has any drawings associated to it, but this is just a single part for a time being. And what I'm going to do next is go up here and choose Open in the upper right. This is going to open up into Fusion 360. Now if I brought it from Inventor or I brought it from Vault, it's still giving me a component that shows up in here.

I can actually look at the files themselves and tell it to create a design. You can actually look at your folder structure inside of here. But essentially, just go ahead and open this. Now from our data panel on the left hand side, I'm going to open up another folder. You can see, I have an Inventor IPT loaded here. So if that did come from those systems, you can right click and say, Create Fusion Design from that, which would create the Fusion harmonica.

What we're going to begin doing here though, is we're going to create the inspection. To do this, you change from the design environment to the manufacture environment, here inside of Fusion. Now this is available for everybody. It's just certain tools are turned on for the machining extension. So I'm going to choose Manufacture. Up here at the top, I have under the inspections area, I have Manual and Record. So Create Manual Inspection is what I'm going to do from a quality assurance standpoint to make sure that our inspections that are performed are done the way I want them to.

So I'm going to go ahead and create a new inspection here. And I want to get this diameter. So I'm going to say, Check Diameter. And what's really nice about this is you can change the camera angle where you want it. Go to save the camera, record that camera position. So it gets entered in there for the person doing the actual recording.

So here, I'm going to say, use a whole gauge for this. Now Caleb doesn't have a whole gauge, so that's fine. I'm just going to use the calipers for today. I'm going to create another one. So I'll choose the plus button here. Next one, I'm going to have him do is from a parallel phase to another parallel phase. So from here to here. We're going to pull this one down, reorient the camera and save it right there.

This would be that. To add another one, here, we're going to do a thickness on this one. You do have to get the little dot in there to bring it out accordingly. Let's get a better orientation on that though. And here, we're going to say check thickness.

Make sure we put the camera there as well too. All right. I'll say, OK to this. And this is recorded a manual inspection. Now there might be some things that I want Caleb to do as well that were not entirely measurement-based. Like perhaps, I want him to do a check against the service quality. So I'm going to go back into this and choose Edit the Manual Inspection. We add another one here. And instead of distance, I'm going to do a pass/fail.

I'm going to say visual inspection. You say check or add layer lines. This is actually going to be a 3D printed prototype. We're going to put that there. And lastly, I'm going to do some text. You don't want him to sign this. So enter a name. Inspector ID. I don't need a camera change on that one. So I'll say, OK.

So now I have a manual inspection inside the manufacturing environment for this part. I'm going to go up here and click Save. And my version description is going to be ready for QC. OK. Back over in Teams, I'm actually going to go back to my home panel here.

Let's go ahead and minimize that a little bit. Yeah. So here's my projects, which I can see right inside of Fusion 360. Here's the harmonica holder. At the root of that directory, I'm going to add a comment that says, "ready for QC." Now with Fusion, it does take some time to generate your consumables. But essentially, I'm going to put a comment there that says, "ready for QC."

Caleb will see that when he comes in here. It shows that it's ready. So through the magic of the internet, we're going to let that finish. Ready for QC. Post. All right. I'm going to turn this over to Caleb to do some inspections on this and show us how he's going to record these.

CALEB FUNK: So on my end, Mark set this up for me, I can come in and start taking a look at this. So I'm logged into the same project, same tenant. I can begin to see the information that I have here. And I can come in and take a look at any comments that Mark has added to this. Take a look and see the information that's part of it. So if I take a look at this one, I can see it's ready for QC. Great. This is where I need to start working on it.

So I'll go ahead and open that up. And I have the physical part. So this was our prototype that we took a look at. This is where we're coming in to begin working with this. I'm going to do some inspections with my caliper, take a look at what Mark has set up for me. Now I have the benefit of knowing what I'm getting into here, but a lot of times this is coming across cold. And I just want to take a look and see what we have in here.

So to this point, I'm going to take a look under Inspection. And I'm going to go through and I want to record an inspection that I have as part of this. So this is a manual inspection. I'll say I want to record it. And I have to select it first. So let me get in here, make sure I've got the right one. And then I'll go ahead and record this inspection.

This, I really like. It just walks me through it. It's the same camera angles that Mark had a moment ago. I can take a look at the information that I have in place. I can begin doing the recording of taking a look at those different planes and different information that I have. My case, I'll take it right off of here. Going to be 702. So we're coming in pretty close there.

And then once I have this, I'm going to go ahead and say, yep, sounds good. Let's move on to the next one. Take a look at that thickness, kind of doing the same thing, just walking through those steps that they have there.

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Sounds good. And I'm going to move on to the next one. In this case, it's just the visual inspection. So this is a matter of me taking a look at it. Mark did a great job. I'm pretty happy with what we have here. So we'll go ahead and pass that one. And then I'm going to put in my Inspector ID. So keeping with our theme, I'll be Penny for today so that we know who's part of that. And I've completed the inspection that's part of that.

So we're good. We've recorded all the information that we have in place. I've got my different checks that I've gone through, recorded them into here. And now I have my results. So I can see the pieces that are-- different ones are intolerance, different ones went outside of my tolerance a little bit. We know what we need to work with. And I can now generate a report from that so that we can have the report pulled out and extracted for that.

So this is a great series of tools that we have to capture this information. And this is something that I've worked with clients for years, where there's been discussions saying, how do we do this? We want to be able to extract this out so that we can show this report separately. Now we can have all of this out here as part of this. So I'm just going to save that out.

And now have that report generated automatically. So it's a PDF file that gets generated with this information that we can review. So my job is pretty easy. And I like the fact that I don't have to know a lot about Fusion to do this. It's just a matter of logging in and seeing this information, being able to make those small changes and make those updates.

So I've got my results report generated. I can see the information. This can now be shared. You know, whether we're going to share it internally or we need to share it with-- back to manufacturing as part of a design review. So Mark, I'm going to pass it back to you.

MARK ALLEN FLAYLER: Thanks, Caleb. So now that we've seen how to create some manual inspections and some record some manual inspections inside of Fusion 360, we're going to basically take a look now at managing the quality process. So tracking and auditing that collaboration. Now most collaboration methods involve email. So getting emails sent in saying, hey, here's the new report. Here's the PDF that I just generated from Fusion 360.

Now we all problems with that. There's typically two types of people in the world. The people that read their emails and the people that like to run up a counter to see how high they can go. So sometimes email collaboration is not as streamlined or smooth or as in-your-face as much as what's going on inside of your design environment. Or you might have paper methods, if it's being done internally. So you might have a job board that you have to go to and actually pick a clipboard up and say, OK, this QC was done, but no one told me. I walked by it every, let's say, a couple hours when I go to get a cup of coffee, when I go to my next meeting and pick up the quality reports.

And once I get those, I might have to sift through paper, or maybe they show up in an inbox on my desk and they're just mounting and mounting and getting taller and taller. I know a lot of QC and a lot of engineers, QC managers and engineers that have become extremely good at stacking papers and being able to find things in humongous stack of papers. But sometimes things get lost. So what if you're Chief Quimbee and you have to go look in the garbage can and trying to find those reports that you need or trying to find a QC report? How do we avoid some of these pitfalls?

Well, we can do this with the Fusion Manage Extension. This is add-on for Fusion 360. And it adds on to your Fusion Team's tenant. It provides instant on-data management capabilities. It allows you to capture, notify and approve users through emails. And it basically creates a nice digital audit trail of what's been taking place. So I can do true Fusion 360 revision control in here as well on my design models.

So I can have actually revision A, Revision B. I can have a release life cycle of my components that are ending up inside of Fusion. And I should mention that this is really designed for if you are a Fusion 360 centered environment. We're not going to typically send Inventor data up here to do this. You could, if you read through the weeds of this, you could do that. But it's truly designed for Fusion 360 type users.

There is no advanced configuration or administration. It's really just instant on and it gets you going. There's not a terrible amount of configuration that needs to be done at all to start using this. And it is directly inside of Fusion 360. Can you launch it through a web page? Sure. But again, because your Fusion 360 centered environment, you actually have a tab directly inside of Fusion 360.

It is a separate hub. Keep that in mind too. If you're new to Fusion 360, you know that you have a personal hub where you can store your dog house you're building on your lunch break and things like that. But your work should be in your Fusion Team company tenant, which gets managed enabled. And now inside this extension again, you can do a lot of things, like I mentioned. You can create items, you can create life cycles, revisions, part numbers, material dispositions, things like that you would have for components that you're designing and truly have collaborative design of Fusion 360.

We're going to focus on Change Order Creation. And it always kind of throws me a little bit when I talk change orders because you think that something is changing, like something is already built and you're changing or modifying it. But Change Order Creation is also used for NPIs or new product introductions. So we're going to create a new product through a change order. It's already going to have a life cycle and revision assigned to it, but we're just going to manage the process now for quality control.

So we're going to put in title approver's, the reason for the change, put a priority and some reviewers on this. Now once a change order is created, you can see the affected items, which would be your part numbers that were generated automatically from Fusion. You'll see due dates. Again, if you want to change a material disposition, you'll see the approval workflow. And I think more important for our conversation today is attachments.

So you can actually version control attachments inside of here associated with this NPI, or new product introduction. You can create folders in there. So you can see, I've already created some manufacturing files folder. I have a unique step file that was added for slicing for this 3D print. And then I have the 3MF file, which is the entire series of plates that I'm going to actually be 3D printing with.

And you can also look at change logs and statistics. You can really audit what's going on here. So when Dr. Claw comes in and says, show me your audit trail, show me how you release, show me your process. I can say this is exactly what we walked through and here it is being recorded. You don't have to go dig through mountains of paper or mountains of emails to try to find really what's going on for a product.

As we take a look at the change order workflow, you can see, it's pretty simple. We open a change order then we submit it to a work stage. That's the real key. The work stage, you're going to do a tremendous amount of work inside of Fusion 360 and inside of your overall manufacturing environment. Think of the work as a pretty broad term in this sense. So work is also not only just designing and releasing, but it's also actual manufacturing. And actually the QC steps will all take place in the work stage.

Once we've completed work, we can send it to a manager for overall review of the product before it gets closed out. And if something's wrong, we can feedback, loop it and bring it back through. But in the end, this is managing the entire process. We can add comments. We can see change histories. We actually will get statistics about how long it took from open to work to close as well.

So for our demonstration on the fusion Manager Extension, we're going to be utilizing a new piece of equipment here, a new product we've created. We're going to create a change order for that. This is a Autodesk really annoying box. It's basically a gift card holder that takes 134 screws to get into it. So we're going to jump over to Fusion 360. Now inside of Fusion 360, you'll notice on the left hand side here, I can choose which hub I want to be in. So I can choose my user-based hub or I can choose my Manage Extension Enabled team tenant, which I have right here already.

Now one of the biggest differences you'll notice between a personal hub and a extension hub is I actually will have a process tab in here. So I can click on Process. And this will actually give me kind of a quasi-Fusion 360 Manage field to this. For anyone that's used Fusion 360 Manage, this is a more lightweight version of that tenant.

So up here, I have these three little buttons here on the hamburger icon. And I can choose different workspaces for design and engineering, where I can actually assign item numbers and workflows for my designs and drawings. And I also have change management. So I'm going to choose Change Orders. And here, I have an initial release for the Autodesk really annoying box. It's currently open. So it's actually already been created.

But just kind of give you a look here, I'm going to click the plus button to see what it would be to create a new one. So you can put a title in here. You can choose your approver's from a list of project collaborators you have in your Fusion Teams project. You can specify a reason for change. This is a predefined list. So you would choose one from this list, like Initial Release, as an example. You have your team of reviewers.

So this would be your project manager. And then at the bottom, we have statistics. So these will automatically compile themselves as you go through. Let's go ahead and take a look at the one I already have open. So here, with this really annoying box, I have this one created. The approver's are myself, Caleb and one of my other coworkers, Scott Hoover. I have my affected items. There's 22 items inside of this Fusion 360 design. And they've automatically been assigned part numbers.

They're already been released to production and the effectivity will happen on release. What this means is when I actually approve this change order, the effectivity will take place at that. I don't have any due dates on this. I don't like to pressure myself. But if I look at the approval workflow, you can see, I'm currently in the open stage.

Let me go up here and go ahead and move this to the work stage and add a comment. Ready for revocation. And you see, I'll submit that. Let's move it along the path to the next stage. If I look at attachments, I can see I have my manufacturing files in here, where I have my components. I can see version control. I can see my slicer file so that if I need to change my slicer to have a different build plate or a different material or different method of slicing the additive build, I'm going to do, I can go ahead and upload and version control that as well. And add notes all along the way.

OK. So let's go back to details here. Let's go over to Projects. And I'm going to take a look at the actual file itself, just to show you a few things of a team enabled environment. So I look at ADSK_RAB. And I look at that particular file. You see some information here, like item number, the main item number. The life cycle, the revision of it currently, what state it's currently in, which is the working stage and which change order it's been associated.

You can also do the same thing of viewing and commenting this design as you go. So I'm going to jump back over to the presentation and continue on to our next topic, which will be efficient quality process tracking. So digital quality response and notification is important to know when jobs have hit quality control. And this is typically done, again, perhaps through a job. So someone actually going out and looking at a job board or shaking hands with somebody saying, hey, how about them-- how about them Chiefs last night?

So let's talk about some things and then I'll grab a clipboard and we'll go, right? Knowing when things kind of take place can sometimes be a very manual process. So you also might get, again, a stack of paper for quality control when they're actually recording the process, where it is with the job order, where it is in the actual overall flow. So someone's going to be writing things down with a pencil, adding them into a stack of papers.

And really, we want to try to make things easier on Penny and the Brain, right? So as we start getting into tracking these, we're going to use another piece of technology. We're going to use something like a manufacturing execution system. Now MES systems are a broad term. The one we're going to focus on today is Prodsmart. But an MES can be anything that you do to manage, track, process the documents, the controls, everything that kind of goes into what you do.

An MES system could be Microsoft Excel today for you. MES system could be the actual that we use a clipboard. That is an MES, it's just not a digital MES for things like a clipboard. So when we start looking at Prodsmart, we're going to see how this can really enable us. Now here's just a typical production. And we're going to focus on what happens in quality control, but I think it's important to understand what Prodsmart does in general.

So when we start a production order, this is a typical thing. This is what you may be doing today with a paper traveler. You would create a production or work order. It would then go to an operation. It would then go through operations 2 and 3, go to quality control. And the order is complete. Now it's packed. Now we get the work order back and we have to do manual entry again.

So there's no real-time understanding of what's happening through this entire procedure. So in Operation 1, maybe I had to scribble something on the piece of paper because something didn't work quite. Maybe operation three, something went missing and couldn't find it. And before I can move it on, I had to go find the paper traveler that got pushed behind a desk or fell on the floor somewhere, or maybe I had to reprint it and redo some things.

Then I hit Quality Control, which we're going to focus on as well. But maybe when I had to pass that on, it's a handshake. It's hey, how are you doing? Here's the clipboard for that job. Here's the inbox for all the work orders that we did today. Then once you get it back, maybe you spilled some coffee on it. Stuff happens. So then I have to do manual data entry. I might spend an hour each week at the end of the week filling out work orders and plugging them back into Excel, things of that nature.

OK. So your common methods, you typically end up with something like this work order you see on the right. Coffee cup stains, each operation, different chicken scratches for different users not having the best legible handwriting. Someone got someone's phone number down here and they wrote that down, or a skew number. So problems with all this type of manual data entry and the kind of lag that you see with this is you have delayed data capture. You have delayed visibility.

So you have delayed problem solving. And when it comes to quality assurance and quality control, that's really important because you can't react nimbly. You can't get a feel for what's happening and why it's happening. Why are we getting so much scrap and rework on this machine? Let me go address that right now before more work orders pile up and we just keep creating more scrap. Now again, you don't want to be that guy at the end of the week that has to spend three hours putting all these things in either.

So the added benefit of having a digital workflow is not only saving you time on that, but also giving you the ability to analyze this data through some standard analytics that will be provided through your processes. And we can do this through a dashboard inside a Prodsmart. So you'll see a dashboard initially that says, what's going on? So hey, Mark produced one of those really annoying boxes.

Then he produced another one. Then he produced another one. Then he produced another one at each different operation. So I did a heat gun operation. I did a deburring operation. I can see that I have two of nine created. I need to create seven more. I can see every work order and every step of production and where it's at. So as the inspector, I don't have to go around, hunting for those footprints and tracking down those employees. I have everything available to me right here inside of this dashboard.

So when it comes to quality control, Prodsmart can do a tremendous amount of things as a general MES system. But what's important for us is real time production job tracking, to enable and disseminate quality policies, to see scrap, waste and rework. We can integrate this with Fusion teams for that manage extension as well. We can do work instruction delivery to assure that our processes are following what we want them to do. We can do maintenance logging and checklists.

And we can log our quality control inspections into the process as well. So that's reported. Now as we get into Prodsmart, again, this is not a class on Prodsmart. It's showing what we can do with quality control. But just as a baseline, there's a few things that need to be set up. You need to have workers, you need to have products and you need to have operations.

That's minimum viability to create a production order inside a job inside of Prodsmart. Some additional things you probably want to add though when you create a production order is the codes, quantities, the name of the job, start and due dates, and when workers begin, any operation. What'll happen is they'll punch in their number. So John Smith is employee number one. He has one, punches the clock and he started production on the raw stock cutting. So you get to see that directly in your feed as it's taking place.

Now some things around quality policies. So I can actually, as a quality control manager, or someone who's in charge of that assurance for our company, create a policy that says when we're creating these boxes, these are the methods that we follow. This is our overall company philosophy and policy around the types of things we want to do for creating these parts. Now what will happen is this will be visible to Prodsmart users in the company.

And the users will have to acknowledge this when they log into Prodsmart that says, yep, I read that. I'm part of the quality team. I got my hat. Let's go and we're ready to start making some parts. We can even create work instructions for each operation. This will happen when they log in to perform an operation, when I begin the printing of this on a machine. So the work instructions will be there for quality issue prevention.

Making sure we do things as a work instruction to avoid things we know could happen. So it gets assigned to your operations, like this one's a FDM print start operation. And I can have it show up that say, OK, inspect the print bed, clean the print bed and check the material system. And you can put images into this. This all appears directly to the user on the shop floor. So when Brain's actually going through and executing what Penny is telling him to do, it's very clear to Brain. He doesn't have any confusion about it.

So if we have a traditional paper traveler for inspection, it might look something like this. So I go through and I put in my production order, my parts, my quantities, my names. Is it OK, not OK? There's notes on there. Same kind of chicken scratch problems, coffee cup stains. You know, it's a piece of paper still. So this doesn't make Penny very happy. What does make Penny happy is the ability to integrate this directly, not only to Prodsmart as a digital tracker so I can see what's going on, but also I can do it inside of Fusion and have that tied to it as well.

So what we're going to do when we get to the demonstration is I'm going to have Caleb actually do some recording of the inspection. And he's going to have Prodsmart open directly inside of Fusion 360. Now again, once all this stuff gets recorded, the payoff is really those analytics. So I can tell how many bad parts we have. I can tell how many pass/fails we had. I can see how many things were out of spec, what problems existed inside of the products as they were being generated.

These are all things you can get as dashboard analytics right inside of Prodsmart. So this is a pretty robust left-hand side. Don't get caught in how much stuff is over here. This can actually be tailored based on the worker that's being assigned. But there is a dashboard. There's an analytics and there's also reports there.

So I'm going to jump over to Prodsmart and show you a little bit more about how that's set up from a QC manager level. So I'm going to be Penny in this situation. So here inside of Prodsmart, I do have my dashboard here initially. This is what pops up when I first get in here. And I can see the feed of what's going on. I can see the jobs and such. But what I'm going to start focusing on, again, is quality.

So let me go down here to quality and I'm going to look at our quality policies. And I actually have two of them here. One's active, one's inactive because one's newer than the other. I'm going to go ahead and click on this. Let's see what our company policy is on quality. And there it is. It's a little document that we have. And I can see down here that there's acknowledgment statuses.

So when this becomes active, when a user logs into Prodsmart on a tablet device or through the dashboards tablet view, they have to acknowledge that we have this new quality. They have to acknowledge that we're now doing on these machines instead. So this can be a living and breathing environment to create new quality policies. So I'm going to go ahead and show you what that looks like to the user. Inside of Prodsmart, there is a tablet view I can click on up here.