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Nonconformance

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

/ˌnɑːnkənˈfɔːrməns/nounCommon term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, nonconformance means: A 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.

In Turkish: uygunsuzluk, uygunsuz ürün

How it is used

Quality teams raise, record and close nonconformances, often with an NCR (nonconformance report). Nonconforming products are tagged and moved to a quarantine area. Auditors classify their findings as major or minor nonconformances.

Example sentences

  1. The auditor raised a minor nonconformance because two gauges were past their calibration date.

  2. Please open a nonconformance report for the wrong labels and put the pallets in quarantine.

Common collocations

  • nonconformance report
  • raise a nonconformance
  • major nonconformance
  • close a nonconformance
  • 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.
  • auditA planned, independent check of whether a process, product or management system follows the required standards, procedures and rules.
  • defectA fault in a product or part that means it does not meet its specification, such as a scratch, a crack, a wrong dimension or a missing component.
  • inspectionLooking at, measuring or testing a product to decide whether it meets its requirements, for example checking dimensions with a gauge.

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