nonconformance

countable uncountable

Failure to conform.

Japanese Meaning

不適合（規格や要求事項に合致しない状態）

The audit revealed a critical nonconformance in the production process that required immediate corrective action.

監査で生産工程に重大な不適合が発見され、直ちに是正措置が必要となった。

Sense（1）

Failure to conform.

The focus for preventive actions is to avoid creating nonconformances, but also commonly includes improvements in efficiency.

nonconformances

（ plural ）