Nonconforming Work and Corrective Action Procedures
topic
Nonconforming work management in textile laboratories defines criteria for identifying suspect results from control chart signals, equipment failures, and customer complaints, implementing testing suspension, result quarantine, root cause investigation, corrective action implementation, and customer notification procedures that prevent release of invalid results and systematically eliminate recurring failure causes.
Role
Provides the systematic response framework for managing measurement quality failures in textile testing, preventing non-conforming results from reaching customers, and implementing durable corrective actions that address root causes rather than symptoms to prevent recurrence, satisfying both ISO 17025 requirements and customer expectations for quality failure management.