Associate an Inspection Characteristic with a Characteristic Group

A characteristic group is a set of inspection characteristics. You may associate an inspection characteristic with one or more characteristic groups.

Characteristic groups are very useful to add a set of characteristics to an inspection plan or inspection result, at a time, without having to add them separately.

For example, you may have 10 tests that you always run on a particular category of items. If you associate the 10 characteristics (tests) with a characteristic group, when you are defining your inspection plan specifications, you would only have to choose the characteristic group to add the 10 characteristics (tests) all at once instead of having to individually add each of the 10 characteristics.