Inspection Lots/Inspection Characteristics
Use
In a production process, it is sometimes necessary to carry out inspections to ensure the quality of a product. An inspection lot documents a request for an inspection.
Inspection characteristics are assigned to the inspection lot. An inspection characteristic defines what needs to be inspected. A distinction is made between qualitative characteristics and quantitative characteristics.
With in-process inspections, an inspection lot is created for a process order. Characteristics are assigned to individual operations in the master recipe. The characteristics define the inspection requirements.
The results of the inspection are then recorded for each inspection characteristic and stored in the inspection lot.
To find out more about inspection lots, see
Inspection Processing
.
To find out more about inspection characteristics, see
Inspection Planning
.
Features
The system distinguishes between planned and unplanned inspection characteristics:
Planned inspection characteristics are maintained in the master recipe
Unplanned inspection characteristics are maintained in QM results recording. You can branch to QM from the operation/phase overview of the process order.
If inspection data has been maintained and activated in the quality management view of the material master of the material being produced, then the system automatically creates the inspection lot as soon as the first operation in the process order is released.
You also have the option of creating an inspection lot manually in the process order.