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Funktionswichtigkeit

English translation: criticality of function

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German term or phrase:Funktionswichtigkeit
English translation:criticality of function
Entered by: Heike Holthaus

14:56 Mar 10, 2015
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / QM-Handbuch (Wareneingangsprüfung)
German term or phrase: Funktionswichtigkeit
Bei der Wareneingangsprüfung gelten die erstellten Prüf- und Arbeitsanweisungen und/oder die vertraglich vereinbarten Prüfungen der Lieferanten und die mitgelieferten Prüfnachweise/Dokumente überprüfter/ zertifizierter Lieferanten.
Sie werden bei der Wareneingangsprüfung berücksichtigt.
Je nach Material, Schwierigkeitsgrad der Herstellung, Lieferantenniveau und *Funktionswichtigkeit* werden im Bedarfsfall Prüf- und Arbeitsanweisungen erstellt.

Sofar:

Test and work instructions are prepared where necessary, depending on the material, degree of difficulty of production, supplier standard and ?? significance for functionality ??
Heike Holthaus
United States
Local time: 06:53
criticality of function
Explanation:
It means how important (or critical) the function of the part is.
"Significance" would work as well.
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Darin Fitzpatrick
United States
Grading comment
Thank you
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3criticality of function
Darin Fitzpatrick
3 +1functional relevance
Donald Jacobson
3importance for processes/importance for the production process
Yorkshireman


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
criticality of function


Explanation:
It means how important (or critical) the function of the part is.
"Significance" would work as well.

Darin Fitzpatrick
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 9
Grading comment
Thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Peter Keegan: closest compliance
24 mins
agree  Kim Metzger
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agree  Julia Helbig (X)
15 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
functional relevance


Explanation:
Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde v. 1 1907
https://books.google.com/books?id...
Adam Politzer - 1907
Viele Anatomen hätten die falsche Ansicht, daß die Größe der Körperteile ihrer Funktionswichtigkeit entspreche.
GenRev: Exploring functional relevance of genes in molecular ...
www.sciencedirect.com/.../S0888754311...
by S Zheng - ‎2012 - ‎Cited by 13 - ‎Related articles
Mobile-friendly - We introduce GenRev, a network-based software package developed to explore the functional relevance of genes ...


Donald Jacobson
United States
Local time: 05:53
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Eleanore Strauss
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
importance for processes/importance for the production process


Explanation:
Something like (quite similar to the excruciating English - and German - of ISO 9001:2008) :-)

"If necessary, testing and work instructions shall be specified with regard to materials, degree of manufacturing difficulty, supplier-relevance and the importance of items supplied (or purchased) for maintaining the production process."

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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2015-03-11 23:37:27 GMT)
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essential for the fulfillment of process requirements" would also be typical termin0ology for ISO 9001

Yorkshireman
Germany
Local time: 12:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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