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Audit

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

/ˈɔːdɪt/nounCommon term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, audit means: A planned, independent check of whether a process, product or management system follows the required standards, procedures and rules.

In Turkish: denetim, tetkik

How it is used

Plants face internal audits, customer audits and certification audits, for example for ISO 9001, IATF 16949 or ISO 45001. Auditors conduct an audit and raise findings, and the company prepares for and passes it. Also used as a verb: to audit a supplier.

Example sentences

  1. The customer audit is next Tuesday, so the whole plant needs to be ready.

  2. We passed the ISO 9001 surveillance audit with two minor findings.

Common collocations

  • internal audit
  • customer audit
  • pass an audit
  • audit finding
  • conduct an audit
  • nonconformanceA failure to meet a specified requirement in a product, a process or a management system, for example a part outside tolerance or a skipped procedure step.
  • corrective actionAn action taken to remove the cause of a problem or nonconformance so that it does not happen again, not just to fix the affected parts.
  • quality controlThe work of checking products and processes against set standards to find defects and keep quality at the required level. Often shortened to QC.
  • standard operating procedureA written, step-by-step description of how a task must be done, so that everyone does it the same, safe and correct way. Usually shortened to SOP.

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