mur et barrage qualité
English translation: quality control hurdles
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| 08:52 Apr 5, 2012 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing / Company working in logistics and production | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 22:35 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | quality control hurdles |
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| 4 | quality control checkpoints |
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| 4 | witness and hold points |
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peer agreement (net): +1quality control hurdles Explanation: Metaphor for something difficult to cross. Though "hurdles" is rather less strong in English, because we tend to think of them nowadays as barriers that are jumped over quite easily in a race; the word used to refer rather more to woven fencing that sheep couldn't jump over. "Le chien noir me poursuit dans l’orage A travers de hideux pays plats, Et tous deux, tristes comme des glas, Nous passons labour et pâturage. Il franchit buisson, mur et barrage… Et je n’ai pas même un échalas ! Le chien noir me poursuit dans l’orage A travers de hideux pays plats." http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Rollinat_-_Dans_les_brand... OK, that is not strictly relevant, but let's mix some lit. with our lang.! desvigne.org/tag/spectacle/ "D'ailleurs, à un moment, Akhenaton (du groupe IAM) lit en voix off un poème sur les murs et barrages qu'ils faut traverser… " -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 27 mins (2012-04-05 09:19:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I should have hyphenated it: quality-control hurdles. www.writers.net/forum/showthread.php?96302-getting-publishe... "... one anyone can do as long as you pay the fee. the other requires passing through a number of very stringent quality control hurdles." articles.orlandosentinel.com/.../9609160427_1_gallagher-tasty-bakin... "Rejections are rare, Gallagher said, maybe once every few years because the bakery's production staff has its own quality-control hurdles." www.motor.com/article.asp?article_ID=482 "Changing over to 42 volts for them means extensive product redesign, requalification through all the various quality control hurdles and new tools, equipment ... " |
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quality control checkpoints Explanation: "Parts are carefully examined throughout the production process at multiple quality control checkpoints and all shipments are thoroughly tested and inspected ." http://is.gd/svin2y The manufacturing process includes plastic production, printing and sophisticated finishing. There are quality control checkpoints during the entire process. http://is.gd/GICV2I An in-process quality check is carried out at the end of each line just before ... Quality control checkpoints are spread through the whole manufacturing process... http://is.gd/6iiR8I |
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witness and hold points Explanation: Phrase often used in technical fields for aspects that must be inspected and which, if not acceptable, are then blocked until remedied |
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