Inspection Plans
An inspection with no plan is one person’s opinion of what mattered that day. A plan fixes the characteristics, the method, the gauge and the sampling before the goods arrive.
Where to find it
- Module: Manufacturing
- Group: Control
- Section: Quality Planning
- Screen: Inspection Plans
Address in the console: /mfg/inspection-plans
List · 11 columns · 22 fields on its form · 2 of them required · 3 actions
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Code | plan_no |
| Name | Text | name |
| Ver | Code | version |
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Supplier | Text | supplier_name |
| Stage | Status | inspection_stage |
| Sampling | Status | sampling_plan |
| AQL | Code | aql_level |
| Chars | Number | characteristic_count |
| Critical | Number | critical_count |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name required | Text | ||
| Version | Text | ||
| Item | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Item category | Text | ||
| Supplier | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Routing | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Operation | Number | ||
| Work center | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Stage required | Choice | incoming, in_process, final, first_article, pre_ship, periodic, audit, returned | |
| Sampling | Choice | aql, none, 100_percent, fixed, percentage, skip_lot, first_article, periodic | |
| AQL level | Text | ||
| Inspection level | Text | I, II, III, S-1…S-4 | |
| Sample size | Number | ||
| Sample % | Number | ||
| Skip frequency | Number | ||
| Passes before skipping | Number | ||
| Requires a certificate of analysis | Yes or no | ||
| Inspection drawing | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Authorized by change order | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Effective from | Date | ||
| Effective to | Date | ||
| Notes | Long text |
What you can do here
Characteristics
Release primary
Makes this version the one inspection uses. A released version of the same plan is superseded.
Asks for confirmation: Release this version of the plan? It can no longer be edited once released — only revised.
Revise
Makes a new draft version with the same characteristics to change. This version stays in use until the new one is released.
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.