Processing of Inspection Plans/Reference Operation Sets (SAP Library - Inspection Planning with the Engineering Workbench)

Processing of Inspection Plans/Reference Operation Sets

Purpose

You use inspection plans to process a quality inspection in Quality Management (QM). You use reference operation sets as copy models or references.

Prerequisites

If you want to copy an inspection plan/reference operation set, there must be at least one inspection plan or reference operation set already in the system.

If you want to use master records in the inspection plan (for example, material, master inspection characteristics, catalogs, inspection methods or work centers), these must exist and be released in the system.

For inspection plans or reference operation sets that require history, the corresponding change master record must have been created.

A released change order must have been created for inspection plans or reference operation sets requiring approval.

The revision level of the material to be inspected must exist for inspection plans that are to be assigned to a revision level.

Process Flow

You call up the transaction for processing task lists and select a working area.

If you work with user-specific roles, the work area screen is not displayed. Instead, a selection screen appears.

You can use the same transaction for creating, changing or displaying a new object (for example, task list header, inspection characteristic, test equipment).

You enter the selection period and the selection criteria for the objects to be displayed or processed. There are two screens available with different selection criteria for this selection.

If you want to change existing objects, you must enter a change number in the screen section Process using.

If you change existing objects, these objects are loaded from the database into your worklist and are locked against the access by other users (indicated by the lock symbol).

You switch to the required level of the object (for example, task list header level, operation level inspection characteristic level).

If you want to create a new object, enter a key for the required object in the context block.

You process the header data in the inspection plan or reference operation set.

You process the inspection operations in the inspection plan or reference operation set.

You assign inspection characteristics to the inspection operations.

If necessary, you perform the following steps (in any order):

You assign data at header and operation level.

You assign one or more materials (only for the inspection plan).

You process inspection characteristics.

You define material/customer/vendor-specific default values (dependent characteristic specifications) for an inspection characteristic.

You assign test equipment at operation, characteristic level, or both (as production resources/ tools). You must however note that you can assign several items of test equipment to an operation, but can only assign one item of test equipment to an inspection characteristic.

You assign QM basic data at operation, characteristic level, (or both).

You determine the work center, at which the inspection takes place.

You release the inspection plan or reference operation set.
You save the inspection plan or reference operation set.

If you want to delete an inspection plan or reference operation set, in the task list overview, select the inspection plan or reference operation set to be deleted and choose Delete.