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Tutorial: Terminate Defect Action#

Estimated time to read: 4 minutes

Objective#

Learn how to configure and execute the Terminate Defect Action to automatically terminate defective boards and correctly track X-out scenarios in panels.

Step 1: Configure Lookup Tables#

  • Navigate to Administration > Tables and open the Lookup Tables
  • Configure the following:
    • SMTBoardForms – material forms representing boards
    • SMTPanelForms – material forms representing panels

Lookup Tables

  • Add the appropriate material forms

Update Lookup Tables

Ensure values are mutually exclusive between both tables

Step 2: Configure Defect Action Context#

  • Open the SMTDefectActionContext Smart Table

Select DA ST

  • Create a new entry defining:
    • Product / Product Group
    • Flow / Step (e.g., SMT_AOI)
    • Defect Reason
    • Defect Action = Terminate Material

Step 3: Configure Board Identification Logic (Required for Non-Serialized Materials)#

3.1 Configure SMTConventionContext#

  • Open the Smart Table and define the convention used to identify boards per resource and step

Select CC ST

3.2 Configure SMTMapBoardIDContext#

  • Open the Smart Table and define how MESPositionID maps to board identifiers

Select MBID ST

Step 4: Configure Product Defect Action#

  • Navigate to the Product and open the Defects view

Select defects

  • Click Manage Defects

Select manage

  • Configure:
    • Operation = TrackOut
    • Action = Terminate Material

Manage defect actions

Step 5: Configure Loss Reason#

  • Identify the step where defects are recorded (e.g., SMT_AOI) and configure the loss reason

Loss reason

There is a special case, which is in Line Flows, that requires that the loss reason needs to be configured in the step after, because the Defect Action runs after track-out.

Step 6: Execute – Serialized Materials Scenario#

Initial State#

  • Panel with multiple serialized boards
  • Each board has a MESPositionID

Panel A

Track-In#

  • Track in the panel to the inspection step (e.g., SMT_AOI)

Panel A track in

Register Defects#

You can register defects in two ways:

Option 1: Directly on the board#

Board A Defect

Option 2: On the panel specifying sub-material#

Board C Defect

When registering defects on a panel, you must specify the sub-material

Track-Out#

  • Track out the panel

Expected results:

  • Defective boards are terminated

Panel minus two

  • Panel attribute SMTUnitsExcluded is updated

Panel minus two attributes

Additional Behavior#

  • Manually terminating a board also updates SMTUnitsExcluded

Terminate Board B

Panel A minus three

Step 7: Execute – Non-Serialized Materials Scenario#

Initial State#

  • Panel with non-serialized boards

Panel B

Track-In and Register Defects#

  • Track in the panel
  • Register defects using MESPositionID

Panel B

Track-Out#

  • Track out the panel

Expected results:

  • Panel quantity decreases

Panel B2

  • SMTUnitsExcluded is updated with defective positions only

Panel B2A

Expected Result#

  • Defective boards are automatically terminated
  • Panels track excluded units via SMTUnitsExcluded
  • Panel is terminated when all boards are defective

Frequent Configuration Questions#

Why is the Defect Action not being triggered?#

Verify that both the Product configuration and the corresponding Smart Table configuration are correctly defined.

Why is the panel not being updated correctly?#

Check that the Lookup Tables and mapping tables are properly configured and contain the expected values.

Why do I get an error during Track-Out?#

Ensure that a sub-material is defined when registering defects at the panel level.

Why is the loss reason not available?#

Confirm that the loss reason is configured in the step immediately following the defect detection step.