If quality inspection accompanies a manufacturing process, the master recipe takes over the role of an inspection plan.
You determine the basic data for the inspection in the QM data of the recipe header (that is, in the data for quality management).

The application component Quality Management (QM) has been installed in your system.
The following data has been created there:

• The inspection data in the material master record of the material you want to produce
• If you want to modify the inspection scope dynamically

• The dynamic modification criteria of the task list origin (see Customizing for Quality Management)
• The dynamic modification rule

In your master recipe, you plan inspections during production with reference to the operation or phase during which the inspection is to be carried out. If an inspection is to be repeated at a certain interval during the operation or phase, you can use inspection points to add more detail.

Inspection points for inspections during production are freely defined reference objects for entering inspection results below the operation or phase level. They summarize the results of a certain interval within an operation or phase. The interval can be defined as referring to time (for instance, 2 hours), a quantity (for instance, 5 containers) or any chosen event.

In the QM data for the recipe header, you determine:

• Whether you want to use inspection points
• Which field combination you use for identifying inspection points (for instance, container and shift)
• Whether you want to combine product quantities assigned to the inspection points in partial lots and batches

You can use dynamic modification to adjust the inspection scope to the expected quality level:

You use a dynamic modification rule to lay down the conditions under which inspections are tightened or reduced. The system uses this rule to evaluate the number and results of the last inspections. From the inspection severity determined in this way, it lays down the inspection scope for the individual characteristics using a sampling procedure or further dynamic modification criteria.

In the QM data for the recipe header, you determine:

• Whether the inspection scope is modified dynamically
• Whether this is done at the inspection lot level or at the inspection characteristic level, that is, with different dynamic modification rules for individual characteristics
• Which dynamic modification rule is used

• If you work at the inspection lot level, which additional dynamic modification criteria are used for sample determination, for example, vendor or manufacturer

You always assign the sampling procedure to the characteristic.

For results recording, you determine the following in the recipe header:

• Whether an inspector can or must assign an external number
• Whether an external number has to be unique

To edit QM data for the recipe header, you choose Quality management in the recipe header.