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physical sample

Quality Management (QM)

Subpopulation that is taken from a population and that reflects the quality of this population. The population can be an inspection lot.

The name physical sample (unlike the name sample) is mainly used to describe formless (amorphous) subpopulations, for example, of bulk products or continuous products. These subpopulations are taken from a population, based on a sample-drawing procedure.

In the R/3 System, the physical sample is managed in the form of a data record.

There are the following physical samples:

• Primary samples are taken directly from the population.

• Pooled samples are created by pooling primary samples.

• Reserve samples are primary samples that are reserved as specimen samples.

You can use the physical sample type to adapt specific sample management functions to your needs, for example, dependent on the origin or purpose of the physical sample.