Defect Rate per Project

Defect Rate per Project

Defect Rate is a material management KPI that shows the percentage of the materials or products with defects to the total number of materials supplied or products produced over some period of time. Any imperfection that results in the impossibility to use this material or product in accordance with its specification can be considered a defect. Defect rate can be found by the formula:

Defect Rate = Total number of defects per project / Total number of defects per project

Defect Rate is an important measure for quality control.

To calculate Defect Rate per project please do the following:

Create custom field "Products Number" with Code "cf_products_number"



• To enter the value of the custom field "Products Number"  per project you need to right click on task group with project tasks, select "Custom fields options" and select "Edit"



• To enter the value for the custom field right click on task group and select "Edit"



• Create the custom field "Defects Number" for project with the code "cf_defects_number" to edit this custom fields for projects



• To enter the value of the custom field "Defects Number" per project you need to right click on task group with project tasks, select "Custom fields options" and select "Edit"



• To enter the total number of defects per project right click on task group with project tasks and select "Edit".



• Create the custom field "Defect Rate" with the formula:

ToFloat($cf_defects_number) / ToFloat($cf_products_number) * 100



• On Task Tree select the task group for which you need to display the value of this KPI, select "Custom fields options" and set the following custom fields settings for the custom field "Defect Rate":
  • In "Settings for" select "This task group"
  • select "Enable"
  • select "Calculated by custom field formula (for task group)"





Defect Rate per Project on Task Tree