Enable quality control with acceptance sampling

2025-08-14

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Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Jul 28, 2025	Sep 2025

Business value

Improve quality and reduce inspection time and costs by applying acceptance sampling, a statistical method based on industry standards, to determine optimal sample sizes and pass or fail criteria. This method enables efficient, risk-based quality control while minimizing manual effort.

Feature details

This feature uses quality orders to perform acceptance sampling.

With acceptance sampling, workers inspect a statistically determined sample size of products to identify defects. Workers categorize each defect as critical, major, or minor. A code letter and a master sampling chart based on ISO and ANSI industry standards define the sample size and allowable defect counts for each category.

With this feature, you can:

Generate an acceptance sampling chart (image 1), which consists of a code letter chart (image 2) and an acceptable quality limit chart (image 3). The acceptable quality limit chart provides supporting data from a predefined template. Administrators can edit these templates.
Create a quality association that includes item sampling and test groups, with tests classified by defect type (critical, major, or minor). This configuration enables automatic generation of quality orders for acceptance sampling (image 4).
Print a test report that includes defect thresholds by category, test results, and a clear indication of whether the lot passes or fails inspection (image 5).

Image 1 - Acceptance sampling chart