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Basics
Basics: Business Scenario
Results recording
Defects recording
Sample management
Certificate of conformity
Works test certificate
Certificate of analysis
etc.
Customer complaint
Vendor evaluation
Quality-related costs
Evaluations
Test equipment management uses functions from the Plant Maintenance (PM)
component.
QM in Company Process
QM in Company Process
QM in Procurement
QM in Procurement
QM in Production/Process Industry
QM in Production/Process Industry
• Exercise 4
Function in Detail
Function in Detail
Function in the QM Component
Function in QM Component
• Once the inspection results have been recorded, the inspection lot is
completed with the usage decision. The usage decision specifies whether
the lot is accepted or rejected. The system can automatically make inventory
postings on the basis of the usage decision (for example, posting from
inspection stock to unrestricted-use stock), provided that the relevant
settings have been made.
• The system can also calculate quality scores for the material, or the
combinations material-vendor-manufacturer or material-customer. There are
various procedures available for this calculation.
• The quality level is updated based on the inspection results. The system
uses this quality level to determine the inspection stage for the next
inspection of the material or of the combinations material-vendor-
manufacturer or material-customer. The time of dynamic modification that
you have defined (dynamic modification at lot creation or at usage decision)
determines when the quality level is to be updated.
• If required, you can define follow-up actions that can be triggered
automatically, once the usage decision is made (for example, sending a
complaint mail to a vendor).
• You plan and process physical samples using the functions for sample management. The
physical-sample records are either created automatically at inspection lot creation or manually.
The inspection is similar to the inspection process for inspection points, you record inspection
results for the characteristics in the inspection operations that have been assigned.
• Sample-Drawing Procedure: Master data record that is defined in the task list header and
controls the drawing and formation of physical samples. The sample-drawing procedure contains
one or more sample-drawing items. These items specify the details for drawing the physical
samples. You use the sample-drawing item to define whether you want to work with primary
samples only (single-stage physical-sample drawing) or also with pooled and reserve samples.
You also define the number of physical samples and the physical sample container in the sample-
drawing item.
• Sample-Drawing Instruction: Contains all of the required information for drawing one or more
physical samples from the population to be inspected.
• Physical Sample: Subpopulation that is taken from a population and that reflects the quality of
this population. The population can be an inspection lot. The name physical sample (unlike the
name sample) is mainly used to describe formless (amorphous) subpopulations (for example, of
bulk products or continuous products). These subpopulations are taken from a population, based
on a sample-drawing procedure. The number of physical samples can either be fixed or
determined on the basis of a sampling scheme.