Store the details of welding consumables including batch numbers and conformity certificates for full traceability

Common Consumables

This is the common area for the welding consumables that may be used across any project. Here you can add and maintain the batch numbers, conformity certificates and dimensions of the welding consumables that would be available for use in all the projects. 

This is very similar to the consumables section in each project, where only those welding consumables that were purchased for that project need to be stored. 
Common consumables list
  1. The common consumables repository in the library menu;
  2. Click on the consumable batch number to view and edit;
  3. Click here to add a new consumable to this repository;

Use them across projects

Common consumables in a project
  1. The batch numbers of the project consumables will be shown in normal colour;
  2. The batch number of the consumables in the common library area will be shown with a different colour. These will appear after the list of project consumables and in alphabetical order;

For all the other functions, such as add, edit, import and export, please refer the knowledge base article on project consumables. The functions are identical except that for the common consumables in the library you need to select the units - Metric or US Customary. 

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