What is a nonconforming product?
First, it may be useful to define exactly what a nonconforming product is. For such a product to exist, one or more of the following conditions must be present: Formal verification activities. By definition, nonconforming products result from verification, inspection or test activities. If these don’t exist at a particular stage of product realization, then nonconforming products don’t exist either. Organizations shouldn’t abuse this by claiming they’re not performing verification when they really are. Formal verification activities are very easily recognized by auditors. More important, an organization is playing the business version of Russian roulette when it tries to circumvent nonconforming product procedures for the sake of convenience. Removing a product from the material flow or product realization process . If a product’s condition is such that it can be handled in the normal production flow, then the organization may elect to handle the product outside its nonconforming produ
