Use

When you inspect each physical sample, you must record inspection results for all required characteristics to determine whether the materials meet the predefined quality requirements. On the basis of the inspection results, you valuate and close each characteristic and then valuate each physical sample. The valuation specifies whether you accept or reject the physical sample.

You can record inspection results for physical samples using one of the following functions:

This is the recommended method for recording the inspection results for physical samples if you want to process several inspection lots. Using this function, for example, you can generate a list of inspection lots for each work center or laboratory. You can then drill down each inspection lot to display a hierarchical list of operations, physical sample numbers, and characteristics.

You can use this function to record inspection results for a physical sample that was created manually for an inspection lot.

Integration

Depending on how you valuated the inspection characteristics during results recording, the system proposes a valuation for the physical sample. You can store proposals for these valuations in Customizing for Inspection Planning ( Define inspection point identification ) as follows:

Prerequisites

You can only record inspection results for physical samples whose records have been released. All automatically or manually created physical-sample records receive this status if the confirmation requirement was not set in the sample-drawing procedure. If you set the indicator for the confirmation requirement, you must confirm the drawing of the physical samples before you can record the inspection results.

For more information about confirming the drawing of physical samples, see Processing a Physical-Sample Drawing .

Activities

When you record inspection results for a physical sample, you: