Closure of Inspection Characteristics
Use
The processing of an inspection characteristic is completed when you close the characteristic. The system checks whether the conditions specified in the inspection plan for processing the characteristic have been fulfilled. You must close all required characteristics and all optional characteristics for which results were processed, before the usage decision can be made for the inspection lot.
Prerequisites
Before a characteristic is closed, the system checks the following:
Whether the required sample scope is adhered to
Whether the conditional characteristics were processed (status 2) independently of the valuation of the controlling characteristic
Whether an inspection description was entered for characteristics that require documentation
If there is no inspection description, the system displays a dialog box in which you can enter a short text. You can also enter a long text for the inspection description by calling up the long text function from the dialog box.
For more information about the navigation options when closing characteristics, see Customizing for
Quality Management
by choosing
Quality Inspection
Results Recording
Define Recording Configurations
Features
The function for closing inspection characteristics is contained on the characteristic overview screen and characteristic single screen , when you record inspection results.
As in the valuation of characteristics, you can close one or more selected characteristics on the characteristic overview screen. In addition, you can force the closure of a characteristic .
Note
If you want to close all processed characteristics on the characteristic overview screen, first use the function to select all the characteristics and then close them. Unprocessed optional characteristics, skipped characteristics, and characteristics that are already closed are not taken into consideration in this case.
When you close a non-valuated characteristic, the system automatically valuates the characteristic. If the characteristic is successfully closed, the status of the characteristic is set to "closed" (status 5). In this way, you can immediately close inspection characteristics.
Principle of Dual Control
After you have activated the BADI_QEEM_CLOSE_ECHARACTERISTIC Business Add In (BAdI), you can use the principle of dual control in results recording. You can use this to set that a recorded result must be closed by a different user. This means that at least two different people have to check the data. The BAdI provides the following functions:
Creation and evaluation of results for an inspection characteristic must be done by different users.
Option of forcing the closure of a characteristic.
Characteristic Log
If a characteristic cannot be closed successfully, the system specifies the reason in the characteristic log.
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