Following a batch forwards and backwards through production records to find its materials, process steps and customers.
Good work shows: Links raw material lots to finished batches; finds all affected customers quickly; spots gaps in the trace records.
Tracing a product batch is one of the manufacturing and quality skills on FinderK.
The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.
Quality technician at Pennant Precision Components
About 75 minutes. Included in Plus.
A batch for the morning truck failed its final check on a machine that has just failed calibration. Decide what the results really show, contain the batch, and tell the customer the facts.
Skills: Interpret inspection data from a suspect measuring instrument; Hold product within quality authority under schedule pressure; Define a containment from in-process records; Write a factual nonconformance report and customer notification