The type of the sample routing must be Sample.

Sample routing may contain one or multiple operations. It can also include Return (Next) and/or Scrapped as a last step.

Along with the sample plan name and version, specify plan type of either ANSI or Custom. The type selection depends on whether you need your sampling to confirm to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard.

The ANSI type assures your sampling characteristics confirm to the standard. The Custom type allows you to define any custom characteristics and they will not be checked against the standard.

On the Main tab page, define sample routing and NC severity threshold.

NC severity threshold here is used to compare the total severity of logged NC codes to define SFC group accept/reject decision. You need to consider the severity of NC codes that shall fail sample tests and the acceptable quantity of minor defects to identify the appropriate severity threshold. For example, you have failure NC codes that shall fail the test (marked with the High (5) severity in NC Code Maintenance), and NC codes that indicate minor defect (marked with the Low (2) severity in NC Code Maintenance). NC severity threshold of 5 indicates that SFC number will fail the inspection if operator logs one failure NC code or 3 minor failure NC codes. To allow only one minor defect, set up the NC severity for appropriate code to Medium (3).

On the Main tab page, you can also indicate whether the operator can skip sampling of the group and what message to display in this case. Additionally, you can define a message to be sent to the message board when sample group is rejected.

On the Details tab page, define SFC group size, inspection level procedure and acceptance quality limit if the sample plan is of the ANSI type. Depending on these values, the sample size, accept and reject numbers are calculated by the system according to the American National Standard.

If sample plan is of the custom type, you need to enter the accept/reject numbers and sample size directly. In this case the system will not check if the values confirm to any standard.

On the Attachment tab page, define the material (or material group) to be sampled, and the operation at which sampling shall take place. You can also define the resource for sampling. If a resource is not defined, sampling can be performed on any resource at a defined operation.

You can attach multiple sample plans to one material or operation. In this case, a sample plan for each selected SFC number is chosen by the lowest sequence number. If the sequence number is a tie, the sample plan is chosen alphabetically by sample plan name.