Inspecting inventory
When an inventory item has a condition of inspection required, the item appears on a quality inspector's To-Do List, Inspection Required tab. The inventory must be inspected before it is serviceable.
You update the inventory record with usage values, airworthiness directives, service bulletins, missing sub-components, and any other relevant information and then inspect the item.
If you previously owned an item that you are inspecting after receipt, Maintenix unarchives the record and reinducts the inventory (see the inventory History tab, Additional sub-tab for notes). You update the compliance records with any events that occurred between the time the item left and returned to your organization.
You have the following inspection options in Maintenix:
- Inspect as serviceable
- After you inspect inventory as serviceable, it is in ready for issue (RFI) condition and is routed to the serviceable staging area.
- Inspect as unserviceable
- After you inspect inventory as unserviceable, it is in REPREQ condition and is routed to the unserviceable staging area.
- Quarantine
- Inventory that is missing paperwork or requires additional investigation can be quarantined. QUAR-condition inventory is routed to the quarantine holding area.
Inventory becomes INSPREQ in the following workflows:
- Most part numbers are created with the Force Inspection on Receipt check box selected. When these parts are ordered and the shipping clerk receives inventory at the dock, Maintenix automatically creates a new inventory record with inventory in the INSPREQ condition.
- When maintenance completes a component work package for inventory with a part number that requires inspection, and when the global value for the FORCE_INSP_REPAIR_RELEASE configuration parameter is true, the inventory condition changes to INSPREQ.
- At any time, if someone manually clicks the Mark as Inspection Required, the inventory condition changes to INSPREQ.
- When an agent creates an order and selects the Force Inspection on Receipt check box, then when the inventory is received, the inventory record is created in Maintenix with the INSPREQ inventory condition. (If a part number requires inspection, agents don't need to select the Force Inspection on Receipt check box on the order).
- When you create new inventory, you can select the INSPREQ condition.
- If someone clicks Mark as Inspection Required for a kit, the kit's condition changes to inspection required and the condition of kit inventory items whose part numbers have the Force Inspection on Receipt check box selected (on their Part Details page) are changed to INSPREQ.