Create product specifications

What you will accomplish

Specifications in Product Development are available on Pro, Business, Lab, and Enterprise. Business and higher teammates need formula edit permission in the correct workspace. The lower limit must not exceed the upper limit.

Add a structured specification to a formula so reviewers can see its approved target as an acceptable lower-to-upper range, the measurement unit, and the test method.

This record is evidence for review. It does not automatically grant QA approval or release the product.

Before you start

• Open the formula that owns the specification.
• Confirm the target, acceptable range, unit, and test method with the responsible reviewer.
• Decide whether the result is required evidence for release.

The current Add specification panel records Lower limit and Upper limit rather than a separate target field. Use the reviewed range that represents the target; do not invent a numeric range when the approved requirement is qualitative.

Add the specification

1. Find Formula specifications on the formula record.
2. Select Add specification.
3. Enter the Spec label.
4. Enter the Lower limit.
5. Enter the Upper limit.
6. Enter the Unit.
7. Enter the Method.
8. Set Required for release to match the reviewed requirement.
9. Select Save Spec.

Add one specification at a time for pH, viscosity, specific gravity, appearance, odor, fill, or another reviewed requirement.

Check your work

• Confirm the specification card shows the intended range and unit.
• Confirm the method names the actual test procedure or instrument context.
• Confirm the card shows Required for release only when that requirement was selected. This label identifies required evidence; it does not mean the specification has passed.

If something does not look right

• If Save Spec is unavailable, enter a non-empty Spec label.
• If the card shows Method not specified, reopen the workflow and add the reviewed method.
• If a qualitative requirement cannot be represented accurately in the current range form, retain it in the controlled source document and ask Product support before treating the in-app record as complete.

Next steps

• Create and track samples.
• Start a stability study.
• Open the matching video guide.