• In the Customizing of Plant Maintenance and Customer Service, your system administration has defined the measuring point categories valid for your system under Master Data for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service ® Basic Settings ® Measuring Points, Counters and Measurement Documents ® Define Measuring Point Categories.
• Check whether the required class characteristics which you want to assign to the measuring points/counters were assigned using the classification system or create the required characteristics yourself using Logistics ® Quality Management ® Test Equipment Management ® Equipment ® <Edit mode> ® Extras ® Measuring Points/Counters ® Environment ® Test Equipment Management.

Creating measuring points/counters from the equipment master record	Creating measuring points/counters directly
On the Test Equipment Management screen, choose Test equipment ® Equipment ® <Edit mode>. You reach the general data for equipment screen.	On the Test Equipment Management screen, choose Test equipment ® Equipment ® Measuring point for equipment ® Create. You reach the initial screen.
Choose Extras ® Measuring points/counters.	Enter the key of the equipment, for which you want to create measuring points/counters. Enter the required measuring point category in the section for default values and choose Continue.

3. Enter the necessary data on the Maintain Measuring Points screen. You can specify on this screen whether your measuring point is a counter. There are two lines available for each measuring point/counter that you want to assign to the equipment.



Note the following rules for characteristics and code group:

If you want to enter quantitative measurement results for the measuring point (for example, 20 degrees Celsius, 10 cm, 300 ampères, 1000 candela), you must assign a class characteristic with the required unit to the measuring point.

If you want to enter qualitative measurement results for the measuring point (for example, satisfactory, red, scratched, too dry), you must assign a qualitative characteristic with selected set to the measuring point.

If you want to update the measurement documents automatically as a follow-up action for the inspection lot, you must use the master inspection characteristics. The same class characteristic in the classification system must be assigned to the measuring point/counter as to the master inspection characteristic. This is the only way by which the measurement readings can be updated.

For more information about master inspection characteristics, see Master Inspection Characteristics in the Quality Management component.

4. When you have entered all the necessary data, choose Continue.

The system assigns a number from an internal number range to each measuring point/counter.

If you have already entered the measurement position for each measuring point/counter, the system sorts the measuring points according to the entries in the measurement position field.

5. For further editing, you must branch into individual editing for each measuring point/counter.

To do this, select the measuring point/counter you want to edit and choose Goto ® Measuring point.

You reach the detail screen for the measuring point/counter.

6. Enter the necessary data.