# CheckStation handbook

Record manual inspections against approved methods, retain failures and control quality release separately.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation

Review edition: 25 October 2026



## Guides and help pages

- [Start here: Owner](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/owner): Prepare access and site operation without taking quality authority.
- [Start here: Author](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/author): Encode approved inspection requirements and independent expected selections.
- [Start here: Reviewer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/reviewer): Independently approve exact plans, definitions and instrument references.
- [Start here: Supervisor](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/supervisor): Manage unit context and make quality decisions on retained inspections.
- [Start here: Operator](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/operator): Confirm the physical unit and record exact manual readings.
- [Start here: Viewer](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/viewer): Read quality records and distinguish completion from release.
- [Roles and actions: who can do what](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/roles-and-actions): Find the authority, authentication and review conditions for a task, with links to the working procedure.
- [Inspection input reference: readings, files and reasons](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/input-reference): Use the accepted decimal grammar, attachment bounds and correction-reason limits for an inspection.
- [Prepare the inspection site](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/site-setup): Establish people, stations and approved method responsibilities.
- [Author an inspection plan](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/author-inspection-plans): Bind approved checks to exact context and independently expected selections.
- [Review proof and activate independently](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/proof-and-approval): Approve exact expert definitions and whole plans through distinct decisions.
- [Register exact unit context](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/register-unit-context): Review a native record or import without starting an inspection.
- [Acquire a station and confirm the unit](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/start-an-inspection): Review selected requirements before recording any measurement.
- [Record exact manual readings](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/manual-readings): Respect the approved unit, precision, repetitions and instrument.
- [Prepare and independently approve an instrument](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/instrument-references): Retain actual qualification for the exact method, unit, range and validity.
- [Attach and review required inspection evidence](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/inspection-evidence): Inspect exact files and make the required purpose-based human decision.
- [Complete failures and release only conforming work](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/failures-and-release): Keep completion, result and disposition separate, with no concession release.
- [Request a transcription correction](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/transcription-corrections): Retain the original entry and approve an exact correction, not a new measurement.
- [Authorise and record a full retest](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/full-retests): Repeat every selected check and resolve the earlier finding explicitly.
- [Resolve station control and uncertain commands](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/station-problems): Restore current authority without duplicating an inspection action.
- [Read result versions and current quality records](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/history-and-reports): Retain original results while checking later corrections, holds and release changes.
- [Retain an archive and review site recovery](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/archive-recovery-and-closure): Acknowledge a current archive before closure and review quality barriers separately.
- [Worked example: a failed reading and full retest](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/worked-inspection): Record exact measurements and keep retest and release separate.
- [Permit an exact OrderRun inspection-evidence read](https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/checkstation/evidence-read-permissions): Authorise a receiving site for one exact source context without giving the Owner inspection-release authority.