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Use case · Quality

Quality and acceptance

Determine what evidence establishes that work is complete or accepted: hold points signed, inspections passed, nonconformances dispositioned. Say honestly when it cannot be established.

  • Records
  • Released work
  • Physical build
  • Human authority

What happensInspection rejects finished work. Closure, access and block movement stop until a disposition restores acceptance.

  1. The hold point rejects, Records

    INS-124 records a rejection on work that is physically finished. Complete and accepted are now provably different states.

  2. The evidence chain is incomplete, Records

    The as-built record cannot close, because acceptance is what admits a measurement to it and acceptance has not happened.

  3. Downstream closure stops, Released work

    Successor packages that depend on this acceptance cannot be released, however finished the work in front of them looks.

  4. The consequence reaches steel

    The block cannot move, Physical build

    Closure, coating and block movement wait on a disposition rather than on labour. The constraint is a record, and it is holding steel in place.

  5. Quality authority dispositions, Human authority

    Accept as-is, repair, or reject. The as-built record follows the decision; no amount of established state produces it.

What it costsWork can be closed, concealed, or built upon without an accepted inspection chain, leaving late rework or an unprovable as-built record.

How VeldBuild would answer it

What evidence establishes that this work is complete and accepted?

What it reads

Scope
One work object, its governing inspection criteria and revision, hold points, inspection records, nonconformances, dispositions, and acceptance authority.
Records
Inspection and hold-point plan · Signed inspection and test records · Nonconformances and their disposition · Acceptance criteria tied to the governing revision
Evidence it needs
Signed inspection and test records · Nonconformance and disposition records · Hold-point plan · Acceptance criteria and revision linkage

What it computes

Steps
  • Trace work to inspection, hold point, nonconformance, disposition, and acceptance
  • Check signatures, revision applicability, and closure evidence
  • Keep complete, accepted, and cannot establish distinct
Output
The evidence that establishes acceptance, the hold points still open, and cannot establish where the records do not support the call.

What stays with people

Left unknown
  • Missing or unsigned inspection evidence
  • Unestablished criteria applicability
  • Open or untraceable nonconformance disposition
Decided by
  • VeldBuild reports the evidence state, including cannot-establish; it does not certify quality, safety or regulatory compliance
  • A named quality owner confirms acceptance and dispositions any nonconformance

What would prove it on real records

Test
Compare reconstructed evidence packages with authorized quality acceptances and audit every disagreement, missing record, and revision mismatch.
  1. Which hold points remain, and what is open against them?
  2. Where is acceptance simply not established from the available records?

If your team answers this by hand, start with one work area.

Email the release decision, the systems that hold its records, and who owns it. Keep the first message non-confidential.