Shift change

Future samples in the previous shift are deleted. This also includes the samples with specificity other than entity.

Future samples are generated if the entity is linked to a sample plan frequency and QM specification. The samples are generated for an entity till the end of the current shift, using the entity specific context information.

If there is a job running on the entity, and a QM specification that matches the job's context, the QM specification, and not the one whose context is solely that of the entity, is used to generate future samples. This is because the entity-only context has the lowest possible specificity, so a specification matching any other context information must necessarily have a higher specificity than this. The future samples are generated up to the end of the current shift in the following cases:

• If the sample plan frequency and QM specification have context information other than an entity, which includes or excludes the entity context information.

• If there is a job running on the entity whose operation or the item is equal to the context information in the QM specification.

• If there are no future samples for the sample plan frequency and QM specification.