I's hard to help if I don't know where you want to record it. I full well no all the terms and the intended or un-intended intelligence /expectations attached to them. Here is what I use whether it's just to humor me or feign a continuous process improvement step for AS9100. They on their own do not constitute a reject, non-conformance or process indicator.
OA (observable anomaly) with an additional level of granularity: OA-V(visual); OA-M(measurable).
Since it depends on what you want to do with them; just call them a Doug.
Dewey

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Subject: [TN] Help with a Term

Good afternoon all,

I need help finding an adequate term for something, so I thought I would ask you all.

If I am inspecting conformal coating, and I see a visual "item of interest", what term generically do I call the "item of interest"?  The item of interest may or may not be a defect but it looks visually different than the coating around it.

I have tried Visual Anomaly, or Visual Artifact, but people here don't seem to like any of them?

What do y'all think?

Doug Pauls


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