Chapter 5 Quality Checks
Quality checks help companies verify production quality during manufacturing. Instead of relying only on manual memory or paper inspection records, Odoo can attach quality checkpoints to manufacturing operations so operators must complete checks before finishing work.
This chapter introduces a simple manufacturing quality check flow: enable quality checks, create a quality control point, create a manufacturing order, and complete the work order after the quality check passes.
Enable Quality Checks
First, enable quality checks in Manufacturing settings.
Quality checks should be enabled only when the company really wants inspections to be part of the production process. If the team only needs occasional comments, a full quality workflow may be more than necessary.
Create A Quality Control Point
After enabling the feature, the Quality app appears on the home screen. Open the Quality app and create a quality control point.
Important fields include:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Product | The product that requires quality inspection |
| Operation | Select Manufacturing for production quality checks |
| Work Center | The work center where the inspection should happen |
The control point tells Odoo when a quality check should be generated.
Create A Manufacturing Order
Create a new manufacturing order for the product.
After opening the work order, Odoo asks the operator to perform the quality check.
Only after the quality check passes does the Done button appear.
This behavior ensures that operators cannot complete the production step while skipping the required quality check.
Implementation Advice
Quality checks should be designed with production managers and quality teams together. Do not create too many checks at the beginning. If every step requires too much input, operators may treat the system as a burden and bypass it.
Start with the most important control points:
- Key production operations.
- High-risk products.
- Products with customer quality requirements.
- Steps where defects are expensive to fix later.
This chapter introduced quality checks during manufacturing. The next chapter explains kit production and how Qingdao Ohm's solution extends traceability for kits that do not have real stock in native Odoo.