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Conformity of ProductionConformity of production with legal requirements. |
Consignment stockStore of products that are supplier's property until their acceptance by the customer. |
Containment actionContainment actions are time-limited actions (immediate actions) taken to rectify or mitigate the effects of an identified nonconformity (defects) on production and final product, by all means. This concerns e.g. halting the machine. |
Contamination levelRange of number of particles designated with an appropriate code number, e.g. code number 5 represents a number of particles from 16 to 32. |
Continual improvementDIN EN ISO 9000:2005. Reference to a VDA publication (if the definition is specific to a particular publication, different from it, or complementary to an applicable standard): VDA volume 6.2, VDA volume 6.4. |
Continual Improvement Process (CIP)Synonymous term to continual improvement: recurring activities to increase the ability to fulfil requirements. |
CorrectionAction to eliminate a detected nonconformity. |
Corrective actionAction to eliminate the cause of a detected nonconformity or other undesirable situation. |
Critical characteristicsCritical characteristics are such characteristics with individually estimated risks that: -are deemed directly threatening health and life with the risk resulting from the product, - depend on the adherence to legal requirements (e.g. emission). Critical characteristics are to some extent defined as specific characteristics in a sense of ISO/TS 16949:2009. |
CustomerOrganisation or person that receives a product. |