Inspection Characteristic
In this section, you maintain the controls at the characteristic level of the inspection plan.
You can store basic data relating to the inspection characteristic in the system in the form of master inspection characteristics. You can find the relevant settings in the section Quality Planning, Basic Data, Inspection Characteristic.
You only require the other settings at
characteristic level, if you want to record results based on inspection
characteristics. For these settings, see section Quality Inspection / 
Results Recording.