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Scrap

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

/skræp/nounCore term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, scrap means: Material or parts that are defective or left over and cannot be used or repaired, so they are thrown away or recycled. As a verb, to throw such parts away.

In Turkish: hurda, fire, ıskarta

How it is used

Used as a noun (scrap rate, scrap cost) and as a verb (scrap a batch). Quality and finance teams track scrap closely because it is pure loss. As a noun it is usually uncountable: 'a lot of scrap'.

Example sentences

  1. We had to scrap 400 housings because the wrong alloy was used.

  2. Scrap on the injection molding line is now below 2%.

Common collocations

  • scrap rate
  • scrap a batch
  • scrap cost
  • reduce scrap
  • scrap bin
  • reworkExtra work done to correct a defective product so that it meets the specification, instead of scrapping it. It is also a verb meaning to do this work.
  • 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.
  • first pass yieldThe percentage of units that come out of a process right the first time, with no rework, repair or scrap. Shortened to FPY.
  • wasteIn lean thinking, any activity that uses time or resources but adds no value for the customer, such as waiting, extra movement or making too much.

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