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Inspection is understood as the examination of a product, process, service, or installation or their design and determination of its conformity with specific requirements or, on the basis of professional judgment, with general requirements (DIN EN ISO/IEC 17020 2011). The purpose of inspection is to determine whether or not a part, a product, or a produced batch of these is free from faults or “nonconformity” with predefined quality measures (DIN EN ISO 9000 2005). A fault in this notion is understood as nonfulfillment of prescribed textures, tolerances, sizes, behavior, or other dimensions of quality. The desired level of quality is written down in specifications or obtained from generally accepted standards.
Inspection is considered a vital subtopic of maintenance (refer to DIN 31051 (2012) “Fundamentals of maintenance” for further reading), see Fig. 1. Together with “servicing,” “repair,” and “improvement,” inspection helps to ensure that a predefined quality standard is...
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DIN 31051 (2012) Fundamentals of maintenance. Beuth, Berlin
DIN EN ISO 9000 (2005) Quality management systems – fundamentals and vocabulary. Beuth, Berlin
DIN EN ISO/IEC 17020 (2011) Conformity assessment – general criteria for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection – concept. Beuth, Berlin
Further Reading
Kennedy CW, Hoffman EG, Bond SD (1987) Inspection and gaging: a training manual and reference work that discusses the place of inspection in industry, 6th edn. Industrial Press, New York
Su Q, Liu L, Whitney DE (2010) A systematic study of the prediction model for operator-induced assembly defects based on assembly complexity factors, systems, man and cybernetics, part a: systems and humans. IEEE Trans 40(1):107–120
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Dietrich, F., Seliger, G. (2019). Inspection (Assembly). In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6621
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