Escape Point

Point in the process or control system where a defect should have been detected but was not.

Examples

01The 8D shows the escape point was the end-of-line leak test, which was set to a pressure too low to detect the leak.
02In the supplier review, the team asks for the escape point as well as the root cause, so both the cause and the detection gap are fixed.
03Once the escape point is known, a second check is added at the same station and verified with a deliberately defective master part.