Release a Control Plan

After you create, review, and get the Control Plan approved by the necessary stakeholders, you must release it to make it available for use. This releases all the associated objects of the Control Plan, including the operations, Inspection Definitions, control methods, and unreleased Quality Characteristics added to the Inspection Definitions.

Procedure

1. In the folder where you created the Control Plan, select and open the Control Plan that you want to release.

2. Select the Control Plan or an operation of the Control Plan, and choose More Commands

Manage > Submit to Workflow.

3. In the Submit to Workflow panel:

From the Template list, select the Release Control Plan workflow.

Accept the default workflow Name or type your own.

Enter a Description for the new workflow.

Click Submit.

The workflow releases all the associated objects of the Control Plan, including the operations, Inspection Definitions, control methods, and unreleased Quality Characteristics added to the Inspection Definitions. Note Reference objects of Inspection Definitions are excluded from this workflow.