Quality management · The specification · Element

The tolerances

The acceptable range for each characteristic, and where it came from.

The part

What it is

Tolerances should derive from what the next step or the customer requires, not from what the process currently achieves.

Unnecessarily tight tolerances are one of the most expensive and least visible costs in manufacturing.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.