Purpose
In the Quality Management (QM) component, you can inspect either based on an inspection plan, or (with certain limitations) based on material specifications that are valid on a company-wide basis.
In such an inspection, the specifications from the material specification are used as the inspection specifications. In contrast to the inspection plan, the material specification is a specification that you can use for all plants, that is easier to maintain, and that can replace or supplement a plant-specific inspection plan.
Integration
Depending on the settings in
Customizing, you define which class characteristics are to be valuated with the results of the inspection, by assigning master inspection characteristics to class characteristics In addition, this allows you to use the intervals that have been defined in the batch classification as inspection specifications.When an inspection lot is created, the system copies the master inspection characteristics from the inspection plan and material specification into the inspection lot. The inspection specifications from the material specification take precedence over the inspection specifications in the inspection plan.
Features
valuated automatically at inspection completion, provided that the material is to be handled in batches.
batch determination take precedence over the inspection specifications in the master inspection characteristic, if the master inspection characteristic is assigned to the class characteristic.
variant configuration take precedence over the inspection specifications in the master inspection characteristic, if the master inspection characteristic is assigned to the class characteristic.
Constraints
Note the following when you use a material specification in an inspection:

To download data using the
IDI, you must always use a work center. However, since you cannot predefine work centers in the material specification, but the inspection specifications are defined in the material specification, you must proceed as follows: