An instruction that describes the contents and procedures of an inspection to be carried out at a specific work center.

The inspector uses the inspection instruction as a guideline for inspecting the goods in an inspection lot. The instruction can be printed out automatically by the system when an inspection lot is created or it can be printed out manually by the user.

The inspection instruction contains a summary of the data contained in the inspection lot and in the inspection specification (for example, the inspection plan). Typically, the inspection instruction contains the following type of information:

• Description of material/batch to be inspected
• Number of inspection lot
• Date of inspection
• Inspection operations subject to inspection
• Inspection characteristics to be inspected
• Inspection specifications for each characteristic:

• Characteristic weight
• Inspection requirement (for example, required or optional characteristic)
• Recording form (for example, summarized value or original values)
• Acceptance or rejection number
• Valuation rule
• Number of units to be inspected
• Target value and tolerance ranges for quantitative characteristics

• Short and long texts for inspection method (if available)