Quality Inspector supports sampling within an inspection and skip-lot rules that control how often inspections occur. This guide gives resellers the essentials and links to configuration examples.

Sampling determines how many units to inspect: a fixed quantity, a percentage, or an AQL-based sample. AQL (Acceptance Quality Limit) uses the lot quantity, inspection level, and configured sampling plan to determine the sample size and acceptance/rejection limits. Skip-lot determines which receipt or production occurrences require inspection, such as testing one receipt and skipping the next four. Sampling and skip-lot can be combined: skip-lot decides when to inspect, and sampling decides how much to inspect.

Skip-Lot can be used with the Inspection Bins feature to conditionally re-direct the destination bin on warehouse put-aways for conditional holds when skip-lot determines that testing is required for a given batch.

Start Here

• What Is Skip-Lot Inspection? — A brief introduction to reducing inspection frequency for proven suppliers or stable processes.
• Sampling and Skip Lot in Quality Inspector — Explains sampling, skip-lot, and combining the two.
• Understanding AQL and Inspection Levels — Explains sample sizes, inspection levels, and acceptance/rejection limits.
• Use the Sample Source Feature — Configure fixed-quantity, percentage-based, or AQL sampling on an inspection template.

Configure Skip-Lot

Create a Skip Lot Rule, then connect it to the applicable Quality Inspection Test Generation Rule. The generation rule determines which items, vendors, and processes it applies to; the skip-lot rule determines whether an automatic inspection is created or skipped.

• Skip Lot Inspections in Quality Inspector — General setup, counting and grouping options, rule states, and decision history.
• Skip-Lot Thresholds — Distinguishes counting created tests from waiting for passing results, and explains failure thresholds.
• Implement Skip Lot with Receiving — A receiving walkthrough with example sequences and expected outcomes.
• Implement a “Test Every X Lots” Scenario — A simple recurring inspection pattern.
• Configure Different Receiving Inspection Requirements by Item and Vendor — Apply sampling, full inspection, or skip-lot to specific vendor/item combinations.

Before configuring: confirm whether the customer means every receipt occurrence or every unique lot number, whether reduced inspection requires confirmed passing results, and what should happen after a failure. Skip-lot controls automatic test generation; manually created tests do not follow or advance its sequence.

Use Inspection Bins with Sampling and Skip-Lot

Inspection bins direct inventory requiring inspection to a designated QC bin during warehouse put-away. When combined with skip-lot, receipts selected for inspection can have their sample quantity directed to the inspection bin and the remaining quantity directed to regular storage. When skip-lot skips inspection and no other qualifying test exists, inspection-bin routing does not apply.

Enable Put Away to Inspection Bin on the Item Card and configure the inspection bin for the item and location. This feature requires warehouse item tracking and a qualifying Quality Inspection Test created before the put-away.

• Route Put-aways to Inspection Bins in Quality Inspector — Configure inspection bins, understand sample-quantity splitting, and review receiving and production-output requirements.
• How to Identify Certain Purchased Items as Requiring Inspection — Configure selected purchased items for automatic inspection-bin routing.

Additional Scenarios

• Collect Multiple Samples — Record multiple sample results within an inspection.
• Quality Inspection Sample Worksheet — Enter and review sample measurements and pass/fail counts.
• Sample Bulk Receipts of Untracked Items — Sampling when inventory does not use lot or serial tracking.
• Implementing ANSI Z1.4 C=0 Sampling — Configure sampling where no failed samples are accepted.
• Implement CFR Section 42 Subpart C — A specialized example of staged inspection requirements.