Column

What you should know

Category

You can enter the following types of characteristics:

Results origin

The results data shown on the certificate can originate from:

Short text origin

The short text for a characteristic can originate from:

Origin of the specifications

The printed specification data (for example, tolerances) can originate from:

Strategy for skipped characteristics

If you entered an origin for the results data for which inspection lots are selected, a skip may occur for the affected characteristic. You specify how the system should react in such a situation. The following data can be displayed in such a case:

Text element

You must reference a text element in the form, which is assigned to the certificate profile. The text element describes the data displayed for a characteristic (generally, within a line).

Make sure you consider the following points with regard to data origins:

In both cases, however, a link must exist between the master inspection characteristic and the class characteristic.

Constraint:

If you base the origin on the materials in the production chain , the characteristic category defines which one of the two lists is used in the selection.

For more information, see Text Elements for Characteristics in a Form .

Column

What you should know

Material sort number

Defines the order in which the system searches for characteristic data in the list of materials in the production chain , when it creates a certificate.

By column

If you set this indicator, you define that characteristics are displayed in columns. For more information, see Text Elements for Characteristics in a Form .

No. of columns

Defines the number of columns if you display the characteristics in columns.

Required

If you set this indicator, you define that the characteristic is so important that the data for the entire certificate may only be printed, provided all of the data for the characteristic can be found.

Inspection method

You can indicate whether you want to print a short text, a long text, or no text for the inspection method.

Additional text when not OK

You can define that an additional text is printed, if the value for the characteristic lies outside the specifications.

For quantitative characteristics, the system uses a limit comparison instead of the QM characteristic valuation. For qualitative characteristics, the system uses the characteristic valuation.

Characteristic ID

This description acts as the characteristic identification during the sending of a quality certificate via EDI .

For more information, see Mapping Characteristics for the Transfer of Quality Data .

Additional Information for Quantitative Data

Output format

You can specify whether you want to print the actual value, a reference to the limits, or (depending on the comparison of the value with the values) a text. If you do not make an entry, the system prints the actual value.

If you define a reference to a limit (for example, greater than the lower limit), but the result lies outside of the specifications (for example, below the lower limit), the system prints the actual value.

Unit of measurement

The unit of measurement is proposed from the corresponding master record (master inspection characteristic or class characteristic).

You can specify a different (convertible) unit of measurement in this field. Note that you cannot convert non-dimensional units into one another. The unit conversion is based on the mean value, maximum and minimum values, and limits (tolerance limits, plausibility limits, and additional limits).

Output length

If this value is exceeded during the print sequence, the system prints asterisks on the certificate. This field relates to the output of all quantitative data. That is, the mean value, the minimum and maximum values, the limits and the statistical values (variance, 2nd and 3rd central moments, inner variance, standard deviation, range), but not the estimated share of nonconforming units.

If you want to make sure that the desired data is printed out in all cases, even if certain output lengths are exceeded, do not make an entry in this field.

Decimal places

This field relates to the same quantitative data described under Output length .

The estimated share of nonconforming units is printed out with six decimal places, regardless of the setting in this field.

Exponent

The system uses the exponential display automatically for very large values. If you anticipate very small values, you may want to set this indicator to prevent the system printing zeros. This indicator relates to the same quantitative data described under Output length .