Inspection Data Interface (QM-IDI) 

Purpose

The QM-IDI interface (“Inspection Data Interface in Quality Management”) is an open interface designed for exchanging inspection processing data between the QM application component and external systems. Inspection specifications defined in the QM component are transferred to the external system. The external system independently carries out the inspection and transfers the results back to QM.

The following graphic shows how the SAP system interacts with a subsystem.

Features

The transfer between subsystem and QM is done synchronously as direct program-to-program communication. The subsystem starts the communication both in requesting the inspection specifications from QM and in confirming the results. This type of processing has the advantage that the subsystem itself can request QM inspection lots for processing and can use comprehensive selection criteria to adjust the scope of the work list to its processing times and capacities.

SAP provides function modules for transferring inspection specifications and confirming inspection results. These function modules can be called by external systems and are then processed in QM.

The function modules are called using the SAP remote function call (RFC) interface. In the BC documentation on Remote Communications, you will find detailed information on the technological and other requirements a subsystem must fulfill if it is to link up with an RFC function module defined by SAP.