Using this function, you can create a new physical-sample drawing (with one or more physical samples) that references:

• An inspection lot
• A production order or process order
• A production version

You use this function to create physical samples that have not been planned in a sample-drawing procedure and which you can draw from a production process according to your specific needs. In an inspection during production, for example, you can draw physical samples from the process on the basis of time or quantity (for example, a physical sample every three hours or for every 1000 liters of material produced). You can freely specify the inspection-relevant operations in which you want to inspect the physical samples for the new physical-sample drawing.

To be able to create a new physical-sample drawing that references one of the above objects, the following conditions must be met:

• The task list header must specify inspection points for physical samples.
• If you intend to create a physical-sample drawing with reference to a production order, process order, or production version, an inspection lot must already exist for the order or production version.

This function consists of a report that creates the physical-sample drawing and physical samples based on the selection criteria you enter in the report. You can enter the following information (among other data), before you execute this report:

• Number of physical samples to be created
• Physical-sample category
• Physical-sample container
• Quantity for each physical sample
• Unit of measure for each physical sample
• Storage data for the physical samples

If you want to simulate the creation of a new physical-sample drawing (for example, for test purposes), you can set a corresponding indicator in the report. The system displays a list of the physical samples that would have been created, had you not set the indicator.

If, for example, you want to create and inspect one or more physical samples in a new production step for an inspection lot, you can create a new physical-sample drawing with physical samples and simultaneously create the corresponding inspection points:

• For a specific operation in the inspection lot
• For all operations in the inspection lot

On the selection screen for creating a new physical-sample drawing, you can set an indicator that allows the system to automatically create the inspection points for the physical samples. If you want create the inspection points for a specific operation, you can also specify the operation. If you do not specify an operation, the system creates the inspection points for all operations.

If you call the transaction to create a new physical-sample drawing from the worklist or from a process instruction (PI) sheet, the system automatically sets the indicator to create the inspection specifications and it creates the inspection points as follows, based on the position of the cursor:

• If the cursor is positioned on an operation, the system creates the inspection points for this operation and proposes the physical-sample detail data on the basis of the physical samples contained in the last physical-sample drawing for the operation.

• If the cursor is positioned at the inspection lot level (but not on the inspection lot number), the system creates the inspection points for all operations. The proposal for the physical-sample detail data is taken from the last physical-sample drawing for the inspection lot, independently of the operations.

You execute the report to create the physical-sample drawing.

After the system has created the physical-sample drawing and the list of physical samples, you can branch directly to the transaction for processing the physical-sample drawing (for example, to release the physical samples).