Preventive Action
Quality
Preventive Action
Action that eliminates the cause of a potential nonconformity before it occurs.
Examples
- 01After a clamping fixture cracks on line 2, a preventive action replaces the identical fixtures on lines 1 and 3 before they can fail.
- 02In the supplier review, the buyer asks which preventive actions were rolled out to similar part numbers after the last complaint.
- 03A preventive action from the PFMEA, adding a sensor for a part that had never failed, is tracked to closure like any corrective action.