Determining the proportion of defective items for a product subjected to a particular (but well defined) condition.

However, the warrantor may require consumers to return a defective item to its place of purchase for repair.

Table 18, below, shows the percentages of all defective items which suffered from the specific types of damage noted.

I have been acquiring new skills, such as preparing foodstuffs and repairing defective items."

In fact several recent studies have shown that up to 15% of defective items have passed unnoticed in a 100% inspection.

The store will replace defective items, and accepts returns on unused headphones and earphones for a limited time after purchase.

Given a set of items with defects, is defined as the number of adaptive tests that one would have to make to detect all the defective items.

Shipping the damaged or defective item to Tervis is at the customer's expense; Tervis pays to ship the replacement item.

That way, if there is a problem with a certain batch of products, the serial number of one defective item can tell which items are affected by the problem.

The horizontal axis is a measure of the actual percentage of defective items in the lot being offered to the user, that is the quality of the lot.

Indeed, the number of defective 20th Century items comes close to matching that of the largest single chronological grouping of defective items, composed of 19th Century publications.

The fan maker, an American concern, advised me that it did not allow exchanges; the defective item should remain in place until its rep, the man who was "out circulating," could survey the piece.

This happens if there is significant "infant mortality", or defective items failing early and the failure rate decreasing over time as the defective items are weeded out of the population.

Contractual language can also limit the remedies available for breach of an implied warranty - for example, capping recoverable damages or limiting the remedy to a replacement of a defective item.

Most often a producer supplies a consumer a number of items and decision to accept or reject the lot is made by determining the number of defective items in a sample from the lot.

Under the law, consumers can report a defective item within six months of delivery and it is the responsibility of the retailer to prove that the defect did not exist at the time of delivery.

When Dr. Shewhart joined the Western Electric Company Inspection Engineering Department at the Hawthorne Works in 1918, industrial quality was limited to inspecting finished products and removing defective items.

The boxes will initially be used for rental videos, games and DVD's, but will eventually be available for other products, as well, like disposable cameras ready for processing or defective items being returned for a refund.

If it s too hard to find a merchant s policies on their web site or if their return policy states that they charge a restocking fee for returns on defective items, bump them from your List of possible vendors.

Although consideration has already been given both to the proportion and number of items of different ages requiring repair, there is one further possibly age-related factor which must be taken into account, and that is the degree of deterioration exhibited by the defective items identified.

The Survey makes this point very clearly by showing that not far short of half of all defective items issued (42%) were modern, 20th Century publications, a fact which underlines the danger of assuming that priority should automatically be given to the treatment of older material.

In order, therefore, to establish the extent of the deterioration evident in defective items of different ages issued to readers, an examination was made of how, within each chronological group, items in need of repair were distributed among Categories 3-5 ('Poor', 'Bad', and 'Fragile').

As Table 14 shows, the overall distribution of material in need of repair was such that more than three-quarters (78%) of all defective items issued were classified only as 'Poor' since they did not show major deterioration, while just under a fifth (18%) were classified as 'Bad'.

The consequences were that these very expensive musical instruments were used, damaged, and returned unsold to the UK warehouse, where attempts were made to repair them with the limited facilities on hand, as the distribution agreement with the manufacturing base in Kalamazoo, Michigan did not allow for the return of defective items.

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said Friday that the Government, for the first time, would set national standards for suppliers of medical equipment, requiring them to be more attentive to consumers' complaints and to repair or replace any defective items sold to Medicare beneficiaries.