Types of Inspection Characteristics
You can define item based and non-item based inspection characteristics.
Item Based Inspection Characteristics
You can link item-based inspection characteristics with attribute values in an item class. This enables you to verify if an item meets the required product specifications. The item based inspection characteristics generally have a range of acceptable values or specification limits, as well as target or optimal values.
Non-Item Based Inspection Characteristics
You can define inspection characteristics that aren't mapped to item attribute values. These non-item inspection characteristics can be of type: Number, Character, or Date. You must specify a target value for all of the types, and where applicable, a range or list of valid values as well as a unit of measure.
You can use the non-item based inspection characteristics for both item and resource related inspections.