Master Inspection Characteristic

Purpose
Master Inspection characteristic describes the inspection criteria for materials, parts,
and products. You can create master inspection characteristics at the plant level to simplify
and standardize the inspection planning activities and to standardize the nomenclature.

Definition
An inspection characteristic is created as a master record. This characteristic is intended for
frequent use in inspection plans or for evaluation purposes across all inspection plans. Master
inspection characteristics are language-independent.

Use
You use master inspection characteristics in inspection plans, material specifications, and
certificate profiles to simplify and standardize data entry.

Integration

Use master inspection characteristics in inspection plans, material specifications, and

certificate profiles.
Link master inspection characteristics to class characteristics.
Assign inspection methods to master inspection characteristics.
Assign selected sets and code groups to master inspection characteristics.

Master inspection characteristic of two types:

1. Quantitative Inspection characteristic.
2. Qualitative Inspection characteristic.

Copy Model/Reference Characteristic

List field, in which you can select an option for identifying the master inspection characteristic.
Use
If you identify the master inspection characteristic as a "Complete copy model or "Reference
copy model", the system checks whether the master inspection characteristic, dependent on the
control indicators, was completely maintained.
The system checks, for example, whether you need to enter the tolerance limits here, if you
create a master inspection characteristic with quantitative tolerance limits.
Reference characteristic option
if you use the master inspection characteristic in a task list or material specification, a
reference is first created to this characteristic. You can, however, cancel this reference
and change the data individually (for example, tolerances).
Complete copy model option
if you use the master inspection characteristic in a task list or material specification, the
reference to this characteristic is canceled. You can therefore immediately change the
data (for example, tolerances). You can then only use this master inspection
characteristic as a copy model.
Incomplete copy model
if you use the master inspection characteristic in a task list, this can only be used as a
copy model. This type of master inspection characteristic cannot be used in a material
specification.

Creating a Master Inspection Characteristic (Quantitative)

Prerequisites
If you want to change a master inspection characteristic with history, you must have set the
relevant indicator in Customizing.

Procedure
1. Access transaction by:
SAP Menu

SAP Menu Logistics Quality Management Quality Planning

Basic Data Inspection Characteristics Create.

Transaction Code

QS21

Double click on this

transactions code.

Double click on the Transaction Code QS21 and following screen will appear.

2. Choose Master inspection characteristic.

Press enter

Enter plant code and

code to identify the
master inspection
characteristic

On the initial screen, enter the following data:

On the screen Edit Catalog: Initial Screen enter information in the fields as specified in the
table below:
Initial screen: Maintain the above fields with the help of the following table.
(Note: On above table, in column R/O/C; R = Required, O = Optional, C = Conditional)
Field Name
Description
R/O/C
Plant
In Logistics a plant is an organizational unit for dividing an
R
enterprise according to production, procurement, maintenance, and
materials planning.
Name of the
Name that uniquely identifies a master inspection characteristic
O
master
within a plant.
Inspection
Characteristic
Valid from
Specifies the start date for the validity period of an object (such as
R
material, BOM, or routing.

The general data screen for the master inspection characteristic appears.
3. When creating a master inspection characteristic, define the characteristic type quantitative
characteristic or in the Preset indicators field, enter a control key that has already been defined
in Customizing.

Select Quantitative
Characteristics

Field Name
Key Containing
Preset
Characteristic
Control
Indicators
Quantitative
Characteristic

Description
To make it easier for you to define the control indicators for an inspection
characteristic, you can define a predefined combination of control
indicators in Customizing. You can then use indicators in an inspection
plan or master inspection characteristic.
If you set this indicator, it causes the characteristic to be treated as a
quantitative characteristic. You thereby define the control indicators that
are relevant for the inspection characteristic. A quantitative characteristic
is subject to measurement inspections. You can define tolerance limits and
a target value for a quantitative characteristic.

R/O/C
O

4. Enter a short text, a long text, if required, and a search field, set the necessary status, and
choose the Control indicators.
The system displays different dialog boxes for editing the control indicators for the master
inspection characteristic, depending on the characteristic type that you have previously defined.
Enter

Select the Status and

Copy model of the MIC

Enter the Short text and

Search field of the MIC

In the table, enter the following data:

Field Name
Description
Copy Model/
If you identify the master inspection characteristic as a
Reference
"Complete copy model or "Reference copy model", the system
Characteristic
checks whether the master inspection characteristic, dependent
on the control indicators, was completely maintained.
The system checks, for example, whether you need to enter the
tolerance limits here, if you create a master inspection
characteristic with quantitative tolerance limits.
Status of the
This status indicates the processing status of the master
MIC
inspection characteristics.
Short text for
Text up to 40 characters in length that describes the object.
MIC
Search Field
This field uses the search help to make it easier to find master

R/O/C
R

R
R
R

data records.

Status of Master Record

Status
Being created

Effects
If you create a master record, the system proposes the status "Being
created" You can, however, change this status. You cannot use master
records with this status.

Released

Before you can create a reference to the master record, you must release
it by setting the status to "Released".

Can no longer be
used

If a master record is no longer to be used, you must set the status to

"Can no longer be used". Master records that are already being used are
not affected by this status.

Deletion flag

To delete a master record during the next archiving run, you need to set
the status to Deletion flag. A batch program then checks, if references
exist to the master record. In addition, it also checks the actual usage and
not the usage indicator.
If no references exist to the master record, it is deleted. If however, a
reference exists, the master record can only be deleted, if the reference
has first been deleted.
You can only delete a master record online, if no reference exists to it (the
usage indicator is not set).

5. Edit the control indicators and choose Continue.

The general data screen for the master inspection characteristic reappears.

Enter

Control Indicators for the Inspection Characteristic

Field Name
Type
Lower
Specification
Limit
Upper
Specification
Limit
Check Target
Value
Sample
Sampling
Procedure is
Required
SPC
Characteristic

Description

R/O/C

If you set this indicator, you must enter a lower specification limit
for the inspection characteristic.

If you set this indicator, you must enter an upper specification

limit for the inspection characteristic

If you set this indicator and either the "Upper specification limit"
or "Lower specification limit" indicator, the system checks
whether the target value lies within the tolerance.

If you set this indicator, a sampling procedure must be assigned

to the characteristic in the task list.

If you set this indicator, a control chart is run for this

characteristic.
If you set this indicator, you must also set the "Sampling

procedure" indicator.
You must then enter an SPC criterion and a sampling procedure
with a control chart type in the task list for the SPC
characteristic.
Additive sample
If you set this indicator, in sample calculation, causes the size of
the partial sample to be increased by the quantity required for
this characteristic.
Destructive
You set this indicator for inspection characteristics whose
Inspection
samples will be destroyed when you inspect the characteristics.
This means that is no longer available. This quantity is used in
the usage decision as the proposed quantity for the posting to
sample.
Result confirmation
Summarized
If you set this indicator, only summarized values are confirmed
Characteristic
for the inspection results of the characteristic after an inspection.
Recording
Single Values
If you set this indicator, the inspection results for the inspection
Recording
characteristic are recorded as single values (measured values,
codes, etc.) after the inspection.
No
If you set this indicator, results cannot be recorded for the
Characteristics
inspection characteristic after the inspection.
Recording
Classed
If you set this indicator, the inspection results for the inspection
Characteristics
characteristic are recorded as classed values.
Recording
Automatic Defect If you set this indicator and an inspection characteristic is
Recording
rejected during results recording, the function for recording
defects for a characteristic is automatically called up.
Required
If you set this indicator, the inspection characteristic must be
Characteristics
inspected.
This means that you can only make a usage decision for the
inspection lot after you have confirmed inspection results for this
inspection characteristic.
Optional
If you set this indicator, the inspection characteristic does not
Characteristics
have to be inspected.
You can choose whether to confirm an optional characteristic.
Conditional
If you set this indicator, this conditional inspection characteristic
Characteristic
must be inspected, if the previous required characteristic in the
After Acceptance operation was valuated with an "A" (accepted).
Conditional
If you set this indicator, this conditional inspection characteristic
Characteristic
must be inspected, if the previous required characteristic in the
After Rejection
operation was valuated with an "R" (rejected)

Note:
If the indicator for the sampling procedure is not set in the master inspection characteristic,
the system uses the sampling procedure predefined in Customizing at plant level. If a sampling
procedure is not predefined at this level, the characteristic is subject to a 100% inspection.

Enter

Field Name
Description
Inspection Scope
Scope not Fix
If you set this indicator, the number of inspected units is defined
by the user for results recording.
This number does not have to agree with the pre-calculated
number of inspected units.

R/O/C
R

R
Fix Scope

Smaller Scope

If you set this indicator, the number of inspected units must

correspond to the pre-calculated number of units to be inspected
for results recording.
If you set this indicator, the number of inspected units can be
smaller than the pre-calculated number of units to be inspected
for results recording.

R
Larger Scope

If you set this indicator, the number of inspected units can be

greater than the pre-calculated number of units to be inspected
for results recording.
Document confirmation
R
No
Document
ation

If you set this indicator, no additional text must be entered as

documentation for this characteristic during results recording.

Required
R
Documentation
Required
if
Rejected

If you set this indicator, additional text has to be entered as

documentation only when the inspection characteristic has been
rejected during results recording for this characteristic.

Documentation
Required

If you set this indicator, additional text must always be entered

to document the inspection results during results recording for
this characteristic.

Miscellaneous
Long-Term
Inspection

If you set this indicator, the characteristic is subject to a longterm inspection.

If you set this indicator for at least one required characteristic,
you can distinguish between "Short-term inspection completion"
and a final completion of the inspection (status: Inspection close
completed).
Optional characteristics only work as long-term characteristics,
when they are set for processing before inspection completion.

O
Quality Score
and Scrap
Share
Create Change
Document
s During
Results
Recording
Assignment of
Test Equipment
Required
Record
Measured Values
Print

If you set this indicator, the fraction of nonconforming units for

this inspection characteristic is taken into account when the
share of scrap is calculated in the inspection lot.
If you set this indicator, change documents are created for this
characteristic when results are recorded based on
characteristics.

If you set this indicator, you can assign test equipment to the
inspection characteristic in the task list.
If you do not make an assignment, the system displays a
warning message.
If you set this indicator, measured values for this quantitative
characteristic have to be inspected and confirmed.

R
Inspection
Characteri
stic Is
Printed

If you set this indicator, the inspection characteristic is printed on

the inspection instruction.

R
Inspection
Characteri
stic Is Not
Printed

If you set this indicator, the inspection characteristic is not

printed on the inspection instruction.

R
Inspection
Characteri
stic Is Not

If you set this indicator, the inspection characteristic is only

printed on the inspection instruction, if no skip is planned for the
inspection characteristic.

Printed at
Skip
Stage
Formula
Inspection
Characteri
stic Does
Not
Contain a
Formula
Calculated
Characteri
stic

Input Processing
Indicator

Indicator for inspection characteristics. Ensures that an

inspection characteristic is not characterized as either a
calculated characteristic or a characteristic for input processing.
You set this indicator when the inspection result for an inspection
characteristic is not to be processed further.

The indicator defines the characteristic as a calculated

characteristic.
You set this indicator if the inspection result for an inspection
characteristic is not determined through the inspection of this
characteristic, but on the basis of calculations using the
inspection results of other characteristics within the same
operation.
Indicator for inspection characteristics. This indicator ensures
that entries for an inspection characteristic are processed using
predefined rules (input processing).

Assigning Code Groups

Prerequisites
The code group(s) that you want to assign must already exist in the system.
Procedure
I. On the general data screen for the master inspection characteristic, choose Catalogs.
The Assigned Inspection Catalogs screen appears.
II. In field C, enter a catalog type.
You cannot assign selected sets from catalog type 1, to qualitative characteristics, for
which the characteristic attributes indicator is not set, or to quantitative characteristics.
IV. In the CGr/SSet field, enter the identifier for one or more code group(s). If necessary, use
the input help.
V. If necessary, in the Defect codes for rejection field, assign code groups and codes from the
defect catalog (catalog 9) to the master inspection characteristic. These are used to create a
defect data record for inspection characteristics that are rejected during results recording.
You can assign the following defect codes:
For a general rejection
For a rejection when the upper specification limit is exceeded
For a rejection when the lower specification limit is exceeded
If the Defects recording control indicator is set and you have not even maintained the
General rejection code, then manual defects recording is automatically called up during defects
recording, if a characteristic is rejected.

Click on Catalogs

Assigning Inspection Methods

You can assign several inspection methods to a master inspection characteristic. However, you
can only assign one inspection method to an inspection characteristic in a task list.

6. If necessary, enter the following additional information:

Enter measuring equipment in info Field 3.

For inspection characteristic this data is
captured as Inspection method in
Inspection Report.

Internal characteristic ID
In this field, you can enter an additional characteristic description. This description
identifies a characteristic during the electronic exchange of characteristic values.
Quantitative data (for example target value, plausibility limits, specification limits).
Authorization group.
Inspector qualification.
Share calculation.
Characteristic importance.
Info fields (purely informative data for the master inspection characteristic).

7. Save your data.

Save

Changing a Master Inspection Characteristic (Quantitative)

SAP Menu

SAP Menu Logistics Quality Management Quality Planning

Basic Data Inspection Characteristic Change.

Transaction Code

QS23

Double click on this

transactions code.

Double click on the Transaction Code QS23 and following screen will appear.

Press enter

Enter plant code and

code to identify the
master inspection
characteristic

You cannot change the characteristic type if you:

Change the master inspection characteristic without history and the master inspection
characteristic is referenced in a task list or in a material specification.
Use a control key, for which the Indicator fixed indicator has been set.
Save

You can change the Status

and Copy model of the MIC

You can change the

Short text and Search
field of the MIC

If you change a master inspection characteristic that is referenced in a task list and you have
made this change without history, the change is also included in the task list, since the system
does not create a new master inspection characteristic version in the change procedure.

Display a Master Inspection Characteristic (Quantitative)

SAP Menu

SAP Menu Logistics Quality Management Quality Planning

Basic Data Inspection Characteristic Display.

Transaction Code

QS24

Press enter

Enter plant code and

code to identify the
master inspection
characteristic

Click on Control
indicators

Click on icon

to view the parameters set in the control indicators.

Enter

Enter

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