The phrase "equipment defect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a flaw or malfunction in a piece of equipment.
Example: "The technician identified an equipment defect that was causing the machine to malfunction."
Alternatives: "faulty equipment" or "equipment issue."
For example, it can be applied in meteorology (Ozturk and Dale 1982), queue systems (Dengiz 1988), psychology (Delaney and Vargha 2000), operation research (Ganeshan 2001), corrosion (Najjar et al. 2003), equipment defect and fatigue (Bigerelle et al. 2006), statistical quality control (Fournier et al. 2006), engineering (Rochan et al. 2008), and reliability (Movahedi et al. 2013).
R. K. Wild, a senior analyst in the inspector general's office, said Thursday that full reporting of equipment defects was crucial to ensuring that problems were not duplicated at other plants.
Their evaluation is helped by a Technical Capacity Index (TCI), which evaluates how much the equipment has been affected by wear and tear, in the assessment of the Basic Condition, and the classification of the equipment defects by degrees of severity, in the assessment of the Operating Condition.
Haney's widow sued Lockheed Martin, claiming equipment defects.
Anomaly detection has many applications, such as credit card fraud detection, medical diagnostics information anomaly detection, industrial equipment fault detection and structural defect detection, network intrusion detection, and a novel theme of text mining.
For CMOS image sensor (CIS) manufacturing, automatic optical inspection (AOI) is the critical equipment for defect reduction and yield enhancement.
Keep a clean weapon and fresh ammo also carefully check other equipment for any defects that may be present and if necessary replace any thing you find to be defective.
Even with the prospect of Qatar and Saudi Arabia arming the FSA, the Syrian rebels are unlikely to reach the parity with regime forces needed for a military victory unless they persuade sizeable chunks to defect with equipment.
Additional decisive factors for recovery rates are tree species, log quality, timber defects, sawmilling equipment, mill maintenance, production methods, grading, storage and drying [34, 42].
Report all vehicle defects and equipment malfunctions.
