Inspection and Process Record Review for In-Process Quality and Finished Product Release: Source Citation and Traceability

This category covers full-process quality control from work-in-progress to finished products. Daily documents include control plans, patrol inspection

What This Category of Data Looks Like

This category covers full-process quality control from work-in-progress to finished products. Daily documents include control plans, patrol inspection records, SPC reports, finished product inspection reports, nonconforming product reviews, release orders, and monthly quality reports. Data is primarily sourced from MES systems, online testing equipment, laboratory test results, process parameter logs, customer quality standards, and historical defect databases. Data updates occur per production batch, with real-time collection per shift or periodic updates. Fields include inspection item number, test value, judgment result, operator, equipment number, release status, and more. Units adjust dynamically based on the type of inspection item.

Constraints for Source Citation and Traceability

Since data sources are scattered and update frequencies vary by production batch, citation and traceability must accurately match production batches to corresponding documents for each inspection step, to avoid mixing data across batches. There are significant structural differences across document types, so support is required for automatically associating matching fields by document type. For example, extract trend data from SPC reports, and extract release judgment results from finished product inspection reports. The ongoing updates to the historical defect database mean traceability results must reflect the latest defect records. The citation scope must be limited to documents linked to the current production task, to prevent irrelevant data from disrupting judgments. Release order approval authority is tied to documents, so traceability must retain citation trails for approval nodes to ensure auditability.

Configuration Settings

These configurations apply to FastGPT v4.17.0:

Configuration ItemRecommended SettingRationale
quoteMaxToken800–1200 tokenMatches the average length of single-batch inspection documents for this category, to avoid truncating critical judgment information
responseDataEnabledUsed to display identifiers such as cited document type and production batch number in results, meeting audit traceability requirements
detailEnabledRetains specific field content of cited documents, making it easy for quality engineers to verify inspection items and final judgment results
Single search citation limitTop 3–5 entriesThe number of documents associated with a single batch in this category is limited; too many citations will exceed context capacity limits
Document filtering rulesFilter by production batch tagMatches the batch-based update feature of the data, preventing irrelevant cross-batch data from mixing into the current audit scenario

Three Common Configuration Errors

  • Symptom: Cited document sources appear in the debug page, but no citation traces are shown on the officially published page. Cause: The responseData configuration item is not enabled, or the citation display function is not activated in the publish settings.
  • Symptom: The knowledge base search citation limit is set to 2000, but the single-round answer still exceeds the token limit. Cause: The quoteMaxToken value was not adjusted based on the average length of documents in this category. Using an overly high search limit directly causes context overflow.
  • Symptom: Program execution results in the workflow cannot be used as background knowledge input for subsequent modules. Cause: The output fields of the execution result are not configured as a citeable data source, or the detail configuration is not enabled to expose result metadata.

How to Verify Successful Configuration

  • A query targeting the inspection records of the current production batch is executed, and the returned results are checked for metadata including document type and batch number.
  • The token count of the returned results is verified to fall within the range set by quoteMaxToken, with no critical information truncated.
  • A cross-batch query is run, and the system is verified to automatically filter documents not associated with the current batch.
  • The officially published page is accessed, and citation sources are confirmed to be properly displayed below the answer.

The values provided are common starting points and should be measured against the reader's own samples.